Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-10-07
Nucl.Phys. B517 (1998) 599-621
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
25 pages, RevTeX, 6 postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00829-8
The phase structure of the 3D SU(2)--Higgs model, the dimensionally reduced effective theory for the electroweak model at finite temperature, is analysed on the lattice using a variant of the linear $\de$--expansion. We develop a systematic variational cumulant expansion for general application to the study of gauge invariant operators in 3D gauge-Higgs models, with emphasis on the symmetric phase. In particular, the technique is not restricted to finite lattice volumes, and application to the fundamental 3D SU(2)--Higgs model allows the discontinuity of certain observables across the first--order transition to be observed directly for small 4D Higgs masses. The resulting phase structure agrees well with Monte Carlo simulations for small Higgs masses, but, at least to the order calculated, the technique is less sensitive to the expected evolution of the transition to a crossover for Higgs masses above 80 GeV.
Evans T. S.
Jones Hugh F.
Ritz Adam
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