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Numerical Simulations and the Strength of the Electroweak Phase Transition

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Numerical simulations are performed to study the finite temperature phase transition in the SU(2) Higgs model on the lattice. The strength of the first order phase transition is investigated by determining the latent heat and the interface tension on Lt=2L_t=2 lattices. The values of the Higgs boson mass presently chosen are below 50 GeV. Our results are in qualitative agreement with two-loop resummed perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9405021,
  title  = {Numerical Simulations and the Strength of the Electroweak Phase Transition},
  author = {F. Csikor and Z. Fodor and J. Hein and K. Jansen and A. Jaster and I. Montvay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9405021},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

(Only a few minor changes compared to the original version.) 9 pages and 2 figures, DESY-94-088