1999/02/23 by Cristina Manuel, Manuel, Cristina
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9902444
5 pages, uses sprocl.sty. Talk given at SEWM98, December 98, Copenhagen
arxiv created 1999/02/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We derive a thermal effective action for soft fields in the broken phase of the electroweak theory in the limit of a strongly interacting Higgs sector. This action is just the proper generalization of the hard thermal loop effective action of a Yang-Mills theory when there is a Higgs mechanism and for a heavy Higgs boson. One can obtain from this action the thermal corrections to the masses of the W, Z and the photon.