Simulations of the electroweak plasma at finite temperature

J. Hein

Simulations of the electroweak plasma at finite temperature

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v1

Authors: J. Hein

Abstract

We investigate the SU(2) Higgs model at a Higgs Boson mass of \simeq 34 GeV for temperatures at the electroweak scale. We discuss in detail the critical temperature, the scalar field vacuum expectation value and the latent heat. We also consider for which temperatures the plasma can be regarded as radiation dominated.

Keywords

electroweak plasma SU(2) Higgs model critical temperature vacuum expectation value latent heat radiation dominated

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9708001,
  title  = {Simulations of the electroweak plasma at finite temperature},
  author = {J. Hein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9708001},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses: epsfig and sprocl.sty, Talk given at the conference ``Strong and Electroweak Matter '97'', 21-25 May 1997, Eger, Hungary

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