Melting of the Higgs vacuum: Conserved numbers at high temperature

被引：64

作者：

Khlebnikov, SY ^{[1
]}

Shaposhnikov, ME ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CERN,DIV THEORY,CH-1211 GENEVA 23,SWITZERLAND

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 1996年 / 387卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1016/0370-2693(96)01116-1

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We discuss the computation of the grand canonical partition sum describing hot matter in systems with the Higgs mechanism in the presence of non-zero conserved global charges. We formulate a set of simple rules for that computation in the high-temperature approximation in the limit of small chemical potentials. As an illustration of the use of these rules, we calculate the leading term in the free energy of the standard model as a function of baryon number B. We show that this quantity depends continuously on the Higgs expectation value phi, with a crossover at phi similar to T where Debye screening overtakes the Higgs mechanism-the Higgs vacuum ''melts''. A number of confusions that exist in the literature regarding the B dependence of the free energy is clarified.

引用

页码：817 / 822

页数：6

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