Numerical tests of the electroweak phase transition and thermodynamics of the electroweak plasma

1996/01/31 by F. Csikor, Zoltán Fodor, Z. Fodor +4 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00285-4

published as Nucl.Phys. B474 (1996) 421-445 · latex2e, 32 pages, 11 figures with epsfig; A few comments and a new table are added

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Abstract

The finite temperature phase transition in the SU(2) Higgs model at a Higgs boson mass M_H ≃ 34 GeV is studied in numerical simulations on four-dimensional lattices with time-like extensions up to L_t=5. The effects of the finite volume and finite lattice spacing on masses and couplings are studied in detail. The errors due to uncertainties in the critical hopping parameter are estimated. The thermodynamics of the electroweak plasma near the phase transition is investigated by determining the relation between energy density and pressure.

Citations

• On anomalous electroweak baryon-number non-conservation in the early universe

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