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Fermionic Dispersion Relations in the Standard Model at Finite Temperature

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-01 v1

Abstract

We compute the one-loop dispersion relations at finite temperature for quarks, charged leptons and neutrinos in the Minimal Standard Model. The dispersion relations are calculated in two different plasma situations: for a vacuum expectation value υ\upsilon of the Higgs field υ0\upsilon \neq 0 (broken electroweak symmetry) and for υ=0\upsilon=0 (unbroken electroweak symmetry). The flavour and chiral non-degeneracy of the quasi-particle spectrum is studied. Numerical results show that the thermal effective masses for fermions in the broken phase have a smaller value than those in the unbroken phase. The temperature dependence of the top quark and electron neutrino thermal effective masses is also presented. Gauge invariance of one-loop dispersion relations is studied.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9504410,
  title  = {Fermionic Dispersion Relations in the Standard Model at Finite Temperature},
  author = {C. Quimbay and S. Vargas-Castrillon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9504410},
  year   = {2010}
}

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40 pages, LaTex, 10 compressed, tarred and uuencoded figures in a separate file

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