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Two-loop effective potential, thermal resummation and first-order phase transitions: Beyond the high-temperature expansion

Authors :
Funakubo, Koichi
Senaha, Eibun
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

We study a finite temperature two-loop resummed effective potential in the Abelian gauge theory. A tractable calculation scheme without using a high-temperature expansion is devised. We apply it to the Abelian-Higgs model and its extension to a minimal supersymmetric standard model-like model and study the thermal phase transition. It is shown that our scheme improves the previous results about 10% in the quantities relevant to the phase transition, and its impacts on bubble dynamics could be even more sizable. It still holds that the stop-stop-gluon sunset diagram enhances the strength of the first-order phase transition even without the high-temperature expansion.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, v2: some clarification and a new figure added, version to appear in PRD

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1210.1737
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.054003