Eur. Phys. J. C (1998) 1: 363-368
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01245826

Theoretical Physics

Measuring the interface tension when the electroweak phase transition becomes weak

¹ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, D-04109, Leipzig, Germany
² Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115, Berlin, Germany

Received: 27 February 1997
Published online: 27 February 2005

Abstract

We measure the interface tension near the phase transition endpoint of the 3d SU(2)-Higgs model. The tunnel correlation length method is used and compared to other approaches. A modified scaling behaviour for the mass gap as function of the transverse area is proposed.