Nonperturbative Contributions to the Hot Electroweak Potential
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The hot electroweak potential for small Higgs field values is argued to obtain contributions from a fluctuating gauge field background leading to confinement. The destabilization of F^2=0 and the crossover are discussed in our phenomenological approach, also based on lattice data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902306,
title = {Nonperturbative Contributions to the Hot Electroweak Potential},
author = {S. J. Huber and M. G. Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902306},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 eps figures, talk presented by M.G. Schmidt at Strong and Electroweak Matter '98, Kopenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 2-5, 1998