Non-Perturbative Analysis of the Coleman-Weinberg Phase Transition
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We perform a non-perturbative study of the Coleman-Weinberg phase transition in scalar QED. Our method permits a consistent treatment of the effective potential near the origin, a region not accessible to perturbation theory. As a result, we establish reliably the first order character of the phase transition for arbitrary values of the scalar coupling.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9407267,
title = {Non-Perturbative Analysis of the Coleman-Weinberg Phase Transition},
author = {D. Litim and C. Wetterich and N. Tetradis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9407267},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 4 figures added in PostScript, HD-THEP-94-23, OUTP-94-12