Measuring the interface tension when the electroweak phase transition becomes weak

1997/02/28 by M. Gürtler, E. -M. Ilgenfritz, A. Schiller · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Electroweak interaction #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Interface (matter) #Measure (data warehouse) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Scaling #Tension (geology) #Transverse plane #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/bf01245826

published as Eur.Phys.J.C1:363-368,1998 · LaTeX, 14 pages, including 5 figures; revised version (Ch. 4 enlarged, Fig. 5 changed)

arxiv created 1997/04/23 · openalex publication_date 1998/03/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/25 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We measure the interface tension near the phase transition endpoint of the 3d SU(2)-Higgs model. The tunnel correlation length method is used and compared to other approaches. A modified scaling behaviour for the mass gap as function of the transverse area is proposed.

Citations

• Three-dimensional lattice studies of the electroweak phase transition at MHiggs · 70 GeV
• Critical Higgs mass and temperature dependence of gauge Boson masses in the SU(2) gauge-higgs model
• Finite T electroweak phase transition on the lattice
• Numerical tests of the electroweak phase transition and thermodynamics of the electroweak plasma

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