Published July 4, 1985 | Version v1
Journal article

Study of the phase structure of an SU(3) Higgs model at finite temperature

  • 1. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik, Muenchen (Germany, F.R.). Werner-Heisenberg-Inst. fuer Physik
  • 3. Freie Univ. Berlin (Germany, F.R.). Inst. fuer Theorie der Elementarteilchen

Description

We analyse numerically an SU(3) Higgs model with complete symmetry breaking and radial degree of freedom on asymmetric, periodic lattices. The character of both the Higgs and deconfining transitions is found to depend on the Higgs self-coupling and on a parameter which may simulate the number of flavours. In particular, an increase in the latter leads to the disappearance of the deconfining transition for small Higgs masses. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
157
Journal Issue
1
Series
CODEN: PYLBA.;Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
60-64
ISSN
0370-2693