A strongly first order electroweak phase transition from strong symmetry-breaking interactions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v2
Abstract
We argue that a strongly first order electroweak phase transition is natural in the presence of strong symmetry-breaking interactions, such as technicolor. We demonstrate this using an effective linear scalar theory of the symmetry-breaking sector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9502387,
title = {A strongly first order electroweak phase transition from strong symmetry-breaking interactions},
author = {Thomas Appelquist and Myckola Schwetz and Stephen B. Selipsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9502387},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTex, 15 pages, 3 figures in EPS format. Phys. Rev. D approved Typographically Correct version, minor grammatical changes