Published August 15, 1993
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Journal article
Critical behavior in the electroweak phase transition
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 (United States)
- 2. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
- 3. NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
Description
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 effective infrared corrections to the one-loop potential using well-known var-epsilon-expansion results from the theory of critical phenomena in three spatial dimensions. The theory with the var-epsilon-corrected potential exhibits much larger fluctuations in the spatial correlations of the order parameter, considerably weakening the strength of the transition
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 48
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1560-1570.
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24070689
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CORRELATIONS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; FLUCTUATIONS; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; ORDER PARAMETERS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; STANDARD MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VARIATIONS