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On the scaling of the electroweak interface tension at finite temperature

Joachim Hein, Jochen Heitger

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9605009

Abstract

We determine the interface tension of the finite-temperature electroweak phase transition in a numerical investigation of the SU(2)--Higgs model on a four-dimensional lattice with temporal extension Lt=3. In this simulation the chosen parameters correspond to a Higgs boson mass of about 16 GeV. As a result the interface tension shows only small scaling violations in comparison with previous studies for Lt=2 lattices. We also report on some experiences with autocorrelations in the applied Monte Carlo simulations of two-phase systems.

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