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Self-consistently Improved Finite Temperature Effective Potential for Gauge Theories

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The finite temperature effective potential of the Abelian Higgs Model is studied using the self-consistent composite operator method, which sums up the contributions of daisy and superdaisy diagrams. The effect of the momentum dependence of the effective masses is estimated by using a Rayleigh-Ritz variational approximation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9305222,
  title  = {Self-consistently Improved Finite Temperature Effective Potential for Gauge Theories},
  author = {G. Amelino-Camelia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9305222},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

29 pages, 7 figures not included, Plain Tex, BUHEP-93-12, to appear in Physical Review D49. (additional comments on renormalization and a more quantitative comparison with previous results have been included, one more figure, two new references, two references updated)