http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07238
We study first-order electroweak phase transitions nonperturbatively, assuming any particles beyond the Standard Model are sufficiently heavy to be integrated out at the phase transition. Utilising high temperature dimensional reduction, we perform lattice Monte-Carlo simulations to calculate the main quantities characterising the transition: the critical temperature, the latent heat, the surface tension and the bubble nucleation rate, updating and extending previous lattice studies. We focus on the region where the theory gives first-order phase transitions due to an effective reduction in the Higgs self-coupling and give a detailed comparison with perturbation theory.
O. Gould, S. Güyer and K. Rummukainen
Tue, 17 May 22
50/95
Comments: 22 pages, 17 figures, for videos of bubble nucleation see this https URL, and for the dataset see this https URL