On the phase structure of the 3D SU(2)-Higgs model and the electroweak phase transition

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00829-8zbMATH Open0949.82016arXivhep-ph/9710271OpenAlexW2072902533MaRDI QIDQ1382997FDOQ1382997

Authors: T. S. Evans, Hugh F. Jones, Adam Ritz 

Publication date: 1 April 1998

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The phase structure of the 3D SU(2)--Higgs model, the dimensionally reduced effective theory for the electroweak model at finite temperature, is analysed on the lattice using a variant of the linear $de$--expansion. We develop a systematic variational cumulant expansion for general application to the study of gauge invariant operators in 3D gauge-Higgs models, with emphasis on the symmetric phase. In particular, the technique is not restricted to finite lattice volumes, and application to the fundamental 3D SU(2)--Higgs model allows the discontinuity of certain observables across the first--order transition to be observed directly for small 4D Higgs masses. The resulting phase structure agrees well with Monte Carlo simulations for small Higgs masses, but, at least to the order calculated, the technique is less sensitive to the expected evolution of the transition to a crossover for Higgs masses above 80 GeV.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9710271

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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