The Strongly Interacting Electroweak Phase Transition

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13 September 1994

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

A quantitative discussion of nonperturbative effects for the high temperature electroweak phase transition is presented. We propose a method for the computation of the temperature dependent effective scalar potential that takes into account the running of the effective gauge coupling. Compared to perturbation theory we find a moderate decrease of the critical temperature and an important change in the strength of the first order transition. We conclude that perturbation theory gives a misleading picture of the dynamics of the transition.

Keywords

ELECTROWEAK PHASE TRANSITION
QUANTITATIVE DISCUSSION
INTERACTING ELECTROWEAK
NONPERTURBATIVE EFFECTS
STRONGLY INTERACTING
PERTURBATION THEORY
PHASE TRANSITION
TRANSITION

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Version 1, 1994-09-13, ArXiv
Version 2, 1994-09-16, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Physics B, 440 (1-2), 171.

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