Hard Thermal Loops in the Electroweak Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We derive a thermal effective action for soft fields in the broken phase of the electroweak theory in the limit of a strongly interacting Higgs sector. This action is just the proper generalization of the hard thermal loop effective action of a Yang-Mills theory when there is a Higgs mechanism and for a heavy Higgs boson. One can obtain from this action the thermal corrections to the masses of the W, Z and the photon.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902444,
title = {Hard Thermal Loops in the Electroweak Theory},
author = {Cristina Manuel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902444},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, uses sprocl.sty. Talk given at SEWM98, December 98, Copenhagen