THE END-POINT OF THE ELECTROWEAK PHASE-TRANSITION

Authors
GURTLER M ILGENFRITZ EM SCHILLER A
Citation
M. Gurtler et al., THE END-POINT OF THE ELECTROWEAK PHASE-TRANSITION, Nuclear physics. B, Proceedings supplement, 63, 1998, pp. 566-568
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B, Proceedings supplement → ACNP
ISSN journal
09205632
Volume
63
Year of publication
1998
Pages
566 - 568
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(1998)63:<566:TEOTEP>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The 3d SU(2)-Higgs model is used to find the critical Higgs mass above which the first order phase transition ends. One method is focused on the disappearance of the two-state signal of the scalar condensate (v anishing of the latent heat). Another method is based on the analysis of Lee-Yang zeroes of the partition function which allows to character ise the change from first order transition into an analytical crossove r.