Restoration of Dynamically Broken Symmetries at Finite Temperature

Oct, 1974
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 11 (1975) 779
Report number:
  • Print-74-1485 (HARVARD)

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Abstract: (APS)
A field-theoretic model is constructed which is asymptotically free for all temperatures and which possesses a phase transition in which masses are dynamically generated. The critical temperature above which the particle masses vanish is calculated in terms of the zero-temperature fermion mass. Our results may be of interest not only in theories of the early universe but also in the study of the formative stages of neutron stars.
  • MODEL: FIELD THEORY
  • FERMION: MASS
  • MASS: FERMION
  • SYMMETRY: SU(N)
  • SYMMETRY: BROKEN
  • TEMPERATURE
  • RENORMALIZATION
  • ASTROPHYSICS