2012/05/04 by Birrell, Jeremiah, Rafelski, Johann
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.1011
We study models of strong first order `low' temperature electroweak phase transition. To achieve this we propose a class of Higgs effective potential models which preserve the known features of the present day massive phase. However, the properties of the symmetry restored massless phase are modified in a way that for a large parameter domain we find a strong first order transition occurring at a temperature hundreds of times lower than previously considered possible.