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Complex Effective Potentials and Critical Bubbles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The Higgs contribution to the effective potential appears to be complex. How do we interpret this, and how should we modify the calculation to calculate physical quantities such as the critical bubble free energy?

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9206243,
  title  = {Complex Effective Potentials and Critical Bubbles},
  author = {David E. Brahm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9206243},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, jyTeX, 2 figures not included, CALT-68-1797