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In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of the confinement-deconfinement phase transition in a toy model where the walking dynamics is realized perturbatively. We study the properties of the phase transition focusing on the possible cosmological signatures it can provide. Interestingly the model is well under perturbative control only when the mass of the lightest field — the dilaton/scalon is much lighter than the rest of the fields and the phase transition proceeds slowly leading to strong signals in the stochastic gravitational wave spectrum.
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Azatov, A., Vanvlasselaer, M. Phase transitions in perturbative walking dynamics. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 85 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2020)085
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