Electronic Resource
Springer
The European physical journal
57 (1993), S. 331-337
ISSN:
1434-6052
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract The perturbative effective potential for the Standard Model develops a barrier, at temperatures around the electroweak scale, which separates the minimum at zero field and a deeper non-zero minimum. This could create out of equilibrium conditions by inducing the localization of the Higgs field in a metastable state around zero. In this picture vacuum decay would occur through bubble nucleation. I show that there is an upper bound on the Higgs mass for the above scenario to be realized. The barrier must be high enough to prevent thermal fluctuations of the Higgs expectation value from establishing thermal equilibrium between the two minima. The upper bound is estimated to be lower than the experimental lower limit. This also imposes constraints on extensions of the Standard Model constructed in order to generate a strongly first order phase transition.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01565066
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