THE ELECTROWEAK PHASE TRANSITION

Marcelo Gleiser and Edward W. Kolb
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Marcelo Gleiser: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA
Edward W. Kolb: NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, 60510–0500, USA

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 1992, vol. 03, issue 05, 773-781

Abstract: The phase transition associated with the standard electroweak model is very weakly first order. The weakness of the transition means that around the critical temperature the finite-temperature Higgs mass is much less than the critical temperature. This leads to infrared problems in the calculation of the parameters of the potential. Therefore, theories of electroweak baryogenesis, which depend on the details of the transition, must be calculated with care.

Keywords: Cosmology; Phase Transitions; Electroweak Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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