Phase of the Wilson Line at High Temperature in the Standard Model

Details Phase of the Wilson Line at High Temperature in the Standard Model Phase of the Wilson Line at High Temperature in the Standard Model

1994-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9406264v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 73 (1994) 1754-1757

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages in ReVTeX plus 1 figure; Columbia Univ. preprint CU-TP-632

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1754

We compute the effective potential for the phase of the Wilson line at high temperature in the standard model to one loop order. Besides the trivial vacua, there are metastable states in the direction of $U(1)$ hypercharge. Assuming that the universe starts out in such a metastable state at the Planck scale, it easily persists to the time of the electroweak phase transition, which then proceeds by an unusual mechanism. All remnants of the metastable state evaporate about the time of the $QCD$ phase transition.

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