DOE OSTI · 3684066
Angular momentum of vacuum bubbles in a first-order phase transition
Abstract
The formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) during a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a dark sector has been of recent interest. A quantity that characterizes a black hole is its spin. We carry out the first step towards determining the spin of such PBHs, by calculating the spin of spherical false vacuum bubbles induced by cosmological perturbations. The angular momentum is given by the product of density and velocity perturbations. We carefully track the evolution of background quantities and calculate the transfer functions during the FOPT. We find that the dimensionless spin parameter s = J /(G N M 2 ) of false vacuum bubbles of mass M and angular momentum J , take a wide range of values from 𝒪(10 -5 ) to 𝒪(10) for FOPTs between 10 keV and 100 GeV and a dark sector that is 0.1 to 0.4 times cooler than the visible sector. We also find a scaling relation between the root-mean-square value of the spin, the FOPT time scale, the bubble wall velocity, and the dark sector-to-visible sector temperature ratio.
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Acuña, Jan Tristram [National Tsinghua Univ. (Taiwan); Univ. of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines)] (ORCID:0000000213637030), Marfatia, Danny [Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)], Tseng, Po-Yan [National Tsinghua Univ. (Taiwan); National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei (Taiwan)] (ORCID:000000015469478X). 2026-06-17. Angular momentum of vacuum bubbles in a first-order phase transition. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516%2F2026%2F06%2F042
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