Possibility of Electroweak Phase Transition at Low Temperature
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-05-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study models of strong first order `low' temperature electroweak phase transition. To achieve this we propose a class of Higgs effective potential models which preserve the known features of the present day massive phase. However, the properties of the symmetry restored massless phase are modified in a way that for a large parameter domain we find a strong first order transition occurring at a temperature hundreds of times lower than previously considered possible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.1011,
title = {Possibility of Electroweak Phase Transition at Low Temperature},
author = {Jeremiah Birrell and Johann Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1011},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages and figures, to be submitted to PLB