Finite Temperature Structure of the Compactified Standard Model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-08-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We analyze the finite temperature structure of the standard model coupled to gravity with one and two dimensions compactified (on a circle and a torus). We find that finite temperature effects wash out any vacua which exist at zero temperature. We also discuss the possibility of transitions between the four-dimensional universe and the lower-dimensional spacetimes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.0002,
title = {Finite Temperature Structure of the Compactified Standard Model},
author = {Jonathan M. Arnold and Bartosz Fornal and Koji Ishiwata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0002},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures; v2: section II modified