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NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume 582, Issue 1-3, Pages 277-295Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00298-4
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finite temperature; symmetry breaking; baryogenesis; supersymmetry; cosmology
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In many extensions of the Standard Model, finite temperature computations are complicated by a hierarchy of zero temperature mass scales, in addition to the usual thermal mass scales. We extend the standard thermal resummations to such a situation, and discuss the 2-loop computations of the Higgs effective potential, and an effective 3d field theory for the electroweak phase transition, without carrying out high or low temperature expansions for the heavy masses. We also estimate the accuracy of the temperature expansions previously used for the MSSM electroweak phase transition in the presence of a heavy left-handed stop. We find that the low temperature limit of dealing with the left-handed stop is accurate up to surprisingly high temperatures. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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