Research Catalog

Title

Electroweak physics and the early universe / edited by Jorge C. Romão and Filipe Freire.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Romão, Jorge C.
• Freire, Filipe.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Electroweak Physics and the Early Universe (1994 : Sintra, Portugal)

Description

ix, 410 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series B, Physics ; v. 338

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series B, Physics ; v. 338.

Subjects

• Electroweak interactions > Congresses
• Astrophysics > Congresses
• Cosmology > Congresses

Note

• "Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Electroweak Physics and the Early Universe, held March 23-25, 1994, in Sintra, Portugal." --T.p. verso.
• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 3-D Physics and the Electroweak Phase Transition: Perturbation Theory and Lattice Monte Carlo Analysis / K. Kajantie and M. Shaposhnikov -- Dynamical Evolution of the Electroweak Phase Transition / J. Kapusta -- Gauge Invariant Effective Potential and 4-D Lattice Simulations of the Electroweak Phase Transition / Z. Fodor -- On the Strength of First Order Phase Transitions / M. Gleiser -- An Overview of the [epsilon]-Expansion and the Electroweak Phase Transition / P. Arnold -- The Electroweak Phase Transition in Extended Models / J. R. Espinosa -- Some Non-Perturbative Aspects of the Electroweak Phase Transition / W. Buchmuller -- Electroweak Baryogenesis: Problems and Prospects / N. Turok -- A Note on Spontaneous Baryogenesis / M. Joyce -- Tau Leptons and Top Quarks in a 'non-local' Baryogenesis at the Electroweak Phase Transition / T. Prokopec -- Preventing Baryon Washout with a Z' / M. C. Bento and O. Bertolami -- Baryogenesis from a Primordial Lepton Asymmetry / S. A. Abel.
• Electroweak Phase Changes in Two Higgs Models / A. Davies, C. D. Froggatt, G. Jenkins and R. G. Moorhouse -- On Primordial Magnetic Fields / K. Enqvist -- Another Look at the Electroweak Vortex Solution / F. R. Klinkhamer -- Electroweak Baryogenesis with Topological Defects / A. C. Davis, R. H. Brandenberger and M. Trodden -- Electroweak Strings, Sphalerons and Magnetic Fields / T. Vachaspati -- Electroweak Strings Produce Baryons / M. Barriola -- Electroweak Strings and Topology / M. James -- Sphalerons and Strings / M. Hindmarsh -- Existence and Stability of Spinning Embedded Vortices / L. Perivolaropoulos -- Effective Potential for the Wilson Line in the Standard Model / C. Korthals-Altes, K. Lee and R. Pisarski -- Fluctuations at Phase Transitions / R. J. Rivers -- High Temperature Field Theory Beyond Perturbation Theory / C. Wetterich -- High Temperature Phase Transitions with the Effective Average Action / N. Tetradis -- Exact Renormalization Group Equations for Gauge Theories / M. Reuter.
• Environmentally Friendly Renormalization in Finite-Temperature Field Theory / M. A. van Eijck, D. O'Connor and C. R. Stephens -- Sphaleron-like Transitions at High Temperatures / J. Ambjorn -- Fluctuation Corrections to the Transition Rate of the Electroweak Sphaleron / J. Baacke -- Hot Abelian Higgs Model: Real-Time Properties / A. Krasnitz -- Non-Equilibrium Evolution of Disoriented Chiral Condensates / E. Mottola -- Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Evolution in FRW Cosmologies / H. J. de Vega -- A Report on Quantum Spinodal Decomposition / D.-S. Lee -- NonPerturbative Evaluation of the Sphaleron Transition Rate / A. Bochkarev -- Bubble Nucleation in Theories with Symmetry Breaking by Radiative Corrections / E. J. Weinberg -- One-Loop Corrections to the Bubble Nucleation Rate at Finite Temperature / V. G. Kiselev -- Hydrodynamics of Bubble Growth / M. Laine -- Quantum Scattering and Classical Solutions / S. D. H. Hsu.
• Spherical Shells of Classical Gauge Field and Their Topological Charge as a Perturbative Expansion / K. Rajagopal -- In Search of Classical Trajectories / T. M. Gould -- Possible Instability of the Effective Potential in a Scalar Model due to Extra Dimensions / E. Elizalde, K. Kirsten and Yu. Kubyshin -- Gravitinos in the Early Universe / W. Fischler -- On the Problem of the Magnetic Mass / O. Philipsen -- Next-to-Leading Order Debye-Screening in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories / A. K. Rebhan -- Hierarchy of Effective Models / A. Jakovac -- Derivative Corrections in a Scalar Theory / D. E. Brahm.

ISBN

0306449099

LCCN

95013531

OCLC

ocm32275452

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries