Where the electroweak phase transition ends
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 56 (7) , 3888-3895
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.56.3888
Abstract
We give a more precise characterization of the end of the electroweak phase transition in the framework of the effective three-dimensional SU(2)-Higgs lattice model than has been given before. The model has now been simulated at gauge couplings and for Higgs boson masses =70, 74, 76, and 80 GeV up to lattices and the data have been used for reweighting. The breakdown of finite volume scaling of the Lee-Yang zeroes indicates the change from a first order transition to a crossover at in rough agreement with results of Karsch, Neuhaus, Patkós, and Rank at and smaller lattices. The infinite volume extrapolation of the discontinuity turns out to be zero at being an upper limit. We comment on the limitations of the second method.
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