2010/09/27 by Matti Järvinen, Matti Jarvinen, Francesco Sannino
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2011)081
published as JHEP 1102:081,2011 · RevTeX, 18 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2010/09/27 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/01 · arxiv updated 2011/02/24 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We map the phase diagram of gauge theories of fundamental interactions in the flavor-temperature plane using chiral perturbation theory to estimate the relation between the pion decaying constant and the critical temperature above which chiral symmetry is restored. We then investigate the impact of our results on models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and therefore on the electroweak early universe phase transition.