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The Finite Temperature Phase Transition in the Lattice SU(2)-Higgs Model

K. Farakos, K. Kajantie, K. Rummukainen, M. Shaposhnikov

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9312023

Abstract

We study the finite temperature transition of SU(2)-Higgs model with lattice Monte Carlo techniques. We use dimensional reduction to transform the original 4-dimensional SU(2)-gauge + fundamental Higgs theory to an effective 3-dimensional SU(2) + adjoint Higgs + fundamental Higgs model. The simulations were performed with Higgs masses of 35 and 80 GeV; in both cases we observe a stronger first order transition than the perturbation theory predicts, indicating that the dynamics of the transition strongly depend on non-perturbative effects.

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