Ring diagrams and electroweak phase transition in a magnetic field

Apr, 1999
14 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 15 (2000) 349-362
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Abstract:
Electroweak phase transition in a magnetic field is investigated within the one-loop and ring diagram contributions to the effective potential in the minimal Standard Model. All fundamental fermions and bosons are included with their actual values of masses and the Higgs boson mass is considered in the range 75GeVmH115GeV75 GeV \leq m_H \leq 115 GeV. The effective potential is real at sufficiently high temperature. The important role of fermions and WW-bosons in symmetry behaviour is observed. It is found that the phase transition for the field strengths 1023102410^{23} - 10^{24}G is of first order but the baryogenesis condition is not satisfied. The comparison with the hypermagnetic field case is done.
  • electroweak interaction: critical phenomena
  • magnetic field: external field
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • effective potential
  • fermion: mass
  • boson: mass
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • temperature
  • numerical calculations