Critical Behavior in the Electroweak Phase Transition

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19 August 1992

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9208231

Abstract

We examine the behavior of the standard-model electroweak phase transition in the early Universe. We argue that close to the critical temperature it is possible to estimate the {\it effective} infrared corrections to the 1-loop potential using well known $\varepsilon$-expansion results from the theory of critical phenomena in 3 spatial dimensions. The theory with the $\varepsilon$-corrected potential exhibits much larger fluctuations in the spatial correlations of the order parameter, considerably weakening the strength of the transition.

Keywords

ELECTROWEAK PHASE TRANSITION
SPATIAL CORRELATIONS
CRITICAL PHENOMENA
MODEL ELECTROWEAK
CRITICAL BEHAVIOR
PHASE TRANSITION
STANDARD MODEL
VAREPSILON

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Version 1, 1992-08-19, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 48 (4), 1560.

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