DOI 10.1007/s100529900161
Dimensional reduction of the two Higgs doublet model at high temperature
J.O. Andersen
Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Received: 14 March 1999 / Published online: 22 October 1999
Abstract
Dimensional reduction and effective field theory methods are applied
to the Two Higgs Doublet Model at finite temperature.
A sequence of two
effective three-dimensional field theories
which are valid on successively longer distance scales is constructed.
The resulting Lagrangian can be used to study
different aspects of the phase
transition in this model as well as the sphaleron rate immediately after
the phase transition.
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