Topography of the hot sphaleron Transitions
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- 20 July 1992
Abstract
By numerical simulations in {\it real time} we provide evidence in favour of sphaleron like transitions in the hot, symmetric phase of the electroweak theory. Earlier performed observations of a change in the Chern-Simons number are supplemented with a measurement of the lowest eigenvalues of the three-dimensional staggered fermion Dirac operator and observations of the spatial extension of energy lumps associated with the transition. The observations corroborate on the interpretation of the change in Chern-Simons numbers as representing continuum physics, not lattice artifacts. By combining the various observations it is possible to follow in considerable detail the time-history of thermal fluctuations of the classical gauge-field configurations responsible for the change in the Chern-Simons number.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1992-07-20, ArXiv
- Published version: Physics Letters B, 294 (2), 248.
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