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Fermionic dispersion relations in the standard model at finite temperature

We compute the one-loop dispersion relations at finite temperature for quarks, charged leptons and neutrinos in the Minimal Standard Model. The dispersion relations are calculated in two different plasma situations: for a vacuum expectation value \upsilon of the Higgs field \upsilon \neq 0 (broken e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Quimbay, C., Vargas-Castrillon, S.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(95)00298-7
http://cds.cern.ch/record/281010
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Sumario:We compute the one-loop dispersion relations at finite temperature for quarks, charged leptons and neutrinos in the Minimal Standard Model. The dispersion relations are calculated in two different plasma situations: for a vacuum expectation value \upsilon of the Higgs field \upsilon \neq 0 (broken electroweak symmetry) and for \upsilon=0 (unbroken electroweak symmetry). The flavour and chiral non-degeneracy of the quasi-particle spectrum is studied. Numerical results show that the thermal effective masses for fermions in the broken phase have a smaller value than those in the unbroken phase. The temperature dependence of the top quark and electron neutrino thermal effective masses is also presented. Gauge invariance of one-loop dispersion relations is studied.