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We quantise from first principles field theories living on the background of a bubble wall in the planar limit with particular focus on the case of spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. Using these tools, we compute the average momentum transfer from transition radiation: the soft emission of radiation by an energetic particle passing across the wall, with a particular focus on the longitudinal polarisation of vectors. We find these to be comparable to transverse polarisations in symmetry-breaking transitions with mild super-cooling, and dominant in broken to broken transitions with thin wall. Our results have phenomenological applications for the expansion of bubbles during first order phase transitions. Our general framework allows for the robust calculation of any particle processes of interest in such translation breaking backgrounds.
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AA is supported by the MUR contract 2017L5W2PT. MV is supported by the “Excellence of Science — EOS” — be.h project n.30820817, and by the Strategic Research Program High-Energy Physics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. AA and GB would like to thank M. Serone for discussions. RPB is very grateful to Giacomo Koszegi for numerous discussions at the preliminary stages of the project and wishes him all the best in his new career. RPB also thanks Giovanni Villadoro and Mehrdad Mirbabayi for illuminating discussions. We thank Anson Hook and Isabel Garcia Garcia for feedback on the draft.
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Azatov, A., Barni, G., Petrossian-Byrne, R. et al. Quantisation across bubble walls and friction. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 294 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2024)294
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