2003/03/31 by A. Gynther · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Diagram #Electroweak interaction #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Lepton #Mathematics #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Phase (matter) #Phase diagram #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Statistics #Technicolor #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.68.016001
published as Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 016001 · 16 pages, 14 figures, RevTex4, v2: references added, minor corrections, v3: small changes, references added, published in Phys. Rev. D
openalex publication_date 2003/07/02 · arxiv created 2003/07/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the thermodynamics of the electroweak theory at a finite lepton number density. The phase diagram of the theory is calculated by relating the full 4-dimensional theory to a 3-dimensional effective theory which has been previously solved using nonperturbative methods. It is seen that the critical temperature increases and the value of the Higgs boson mass at which the first order phase transition line ends decreases with increasing leptonic chemical potential.