TY - JOUR
T1 - PhaseTracer
T2 - tracing cosmological phases and calculating transition properties
AU - Athron, Peter
AU - Balázs, Csaba
AU - Fowlie, Andrew
AU - Zhang, Yang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - We present a C++ software package called PhaseTracer for mapping out cosmological phases, and potential transitions between them, for Standard Model extensions with any number of scalar fields. PhaseTracer traces the minima of effective potential as the temperature changes, and then calculates the critical temperatures, at which the minima are degenerate. PhaseTracer is constructed with modularity, flexibility and practicality in mind. It is fast and stable, and can receive potentials provided by other packages such as FlexibleSUSY. PhaseTracer can be useful analysing cosmological phase transitions which played an important role in the very early evolution of the Universe. If they were first order they could generate detectable gravitational waves and/or trigger electroweak baryogenesis to generate the observed matter anti-matter asymmetry of the Universe. The code can be obtained from https://github.com/PhaseTracer/PhaseTracer.
AB - We present a C++ software package called PhaseTracer for mapping out cosmological phases, and potential transitions between them, for Standard Model extensions with any number of scalar fields. PhaseTracer traces the minima of effective potential as the temperature changes, and then calculates the critical temperatures, at which the minima are degenerate. PhaseTracer is constructed with modularity, flexibility and practicality in mind. It is fast and stable, and can receive potentials provided by other packages such as FlexibleSUSY. PhaseTracer can be useful analysing cosmological phase transitions which played an important role in the very early evolution of the Universe. If they were first order they could generate detectable gravitational waves and/or trigger electroweak baryogenesis to generate the observed matter anti-matter asymmetry of the Universe. The code can be obtained from https://github.com/PhaseTracer/PhaseTracer.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087046795&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8035-2
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8035-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087046795
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 80
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 6
M1 - 567
ER -