Published November 2, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Z6 symmetry, electroweak transition, and magnetic monopoles at high temperature

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 2. ITEP, B. Cheremushkinskaya 25, 117259 Moscow (Russian Federation)

Description

We consider the lattice realization of the Standard Model with an additional Z6 symmetry. Numerical simulations were performed on the asymmetric lattice, which corresponds to the finite temperature theory. Our choice of parameters corresponds to large Higgs masses (MH>90GeV). The phase diagram was investigated and has been found to be different from that of the usual lattice realization of the Standard Model. It has been found, that the confinement-deconfinement phase transition lines for the SU(2) and SU(3) fields coincide. The transition line between Higgs and symmetric deconfinement parts of the phase diagram and the confinement-deconfinement transition line meet in a triple point. The transition between Higgs and symmetric parts of the phase diagram corresponds to the finite temperature electroweak transition/crossover. We see for the first time evidence that Nambu monopoles are condensed at T>Tc while at T<Tc their condensate vanishes

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.09.006;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-lat/0606010v3;
PII
S0370-2693(06)01153-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
642
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 147-152
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.