Monday, May 7, 2012

1205.1011 (Jeremiah Birrell et al.)

Possibility of Electroweak Phase Transition at Low Temperature    [PDF]

Jeremiah Birrell, Johann Rafelski
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.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1011

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