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Robust approach to thermal resummation: Standard Model meets a singlet

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: A bstract Perturbation theory alone fails to describe thermodynamics of the electroweak phase transition. We review a technique combining perturbative and non-perturbative methods to overcome this challenge. Accordingly, the principal theme is a tutorial of hightemperature dimensional reduction. We present an explicit derivation with a real singlet scalar and compute the thermal effective potential at two-loop order. In particular, we detail the dimensional reduction for a real-singlet extended Standard Model. The resulting effective theory will impact future non-perturbative studies based on lattice simulations as well as purely perturbative investigations.

Source: Journal of High Energy Physics

DOI: 10.1007/jhep06(2021)130

Authors: Philipp M. Schicho, Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen, Juuso Österman