Electroweak Physics and the Early Universe [electronic resource] /

3-D Physics and the Electroweak Phase Transition: Perturbation Theory and Lattice Monte Carlo Analysis -- Dynamical Evolution of the Electroweak Phase Transition -- Gauge Invariant Effective Potential and 4-D Lattice Simulations of the Electroweak Phase Transition -- On the Strength of First Order Phase Transitions -- An Overview of the ?-Expansion and the Electroweak Phase Transition -- The Electroweak Phase Transition in Extended Models -- Some Non-Perturbative Aspects of the Electroweak Phase Transition -- Electroweak Baryogenesis: Problems and Prospects -- A Note on Spontaneous Baryogenesis -- Tau Leptons and Top Quarks in a ‘non-local’ Baryogenesis at the Electroweak Phase Transition -- Preventing Baryon Washout with Z’ -- Baryogenesis from a Primordial Lepton Asymmetry -- Electroweak Phase Changes in Two Higgs Models -- On Primordial Magnetic Fields -- Another Look at the Electroweak Vortex Solution -- Electroweak Baryogenesis with Topological Defects -- Electroweak Strings, Sphalerons and Magnetic Fields -- Electroweak Strings Produce Baryons -- Electroweak Strings and Topology -- Sphalerons and Strings -- Existence and Stability of Spinning Embedded Vortices -- Effective Potential for the Wilson Line in the Standard Model -- Fluctuations at Phase Transitions -- High Temperature Field Theory Beyond Perturbation Theory -- High Temperature Phase Transitions with the Effective Average Action -- Exact Renormalization Group Equations for Gauge Theories -- Environmentally Friendly Renormalization in Finite-Temperature Field Theory -- Sphaleron-like Transitions at High Temperatures -- Fluctuation Corrections to the Transition Rate of the Electroweak Sphaleron -- Hot Abelian Higgs Model: Real-Time Properties -- Non-Equilibrium Evolution of Disoriented Chiral Condensates -- Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Evolution in FRW Cosmologies -- A Report on Quantum Spinodal Decomposition -- NonPerturbative Evaluation of the Sphaleron Transition Rate -- Bubble Nucleation in Theories with Symmetry Breaking by Radiative Corrections -- One-Loop Corrections to the Bubble Nucleation Rate at Finite Temperature -- Hydrodynamics of Bubble Growth -- Quantum Scattering and Classical Solutions -- Spherical Shells of Classical Gauge Field and Their Topological Charge as a Perturbative Expansion -- In Search of Classical Trajectories -- Possible Instability of the Effective Potential in a Scalar Model due to Extra Dimensions -- Gravitinos in the Early Universe -- On the Problem of the Magnetic Mass -- Next-to-Leading Order Debye-Screening in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories -- Hierarchy of Effective Models -- Derivative Corrections in a Scalar Theory.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Romão, Jorge C. editor., Freire, Filipe. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1994
Subjects:	Physics., Gravitation., Observations, Astronomical., Astronomy, Nuclear physics., Heavy ions., Hadrons., Astronomy, Observations and Techniques., Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory., Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons., Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1304-3
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