Published August 2011
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Journal Article
Finite temperature structure of the compactified standard model
Abstract
We analyze the finite temperature structure of the standard model coupled to gravity with one and two dimensions compactified (on a circle and a torus). We find that finite temperature effects wash out any vacua which exist at zero temperature. We also discuss the possibility of transitions between the four-dimensional universe and the lower-dimensional spacetimes.
Additional Information
© 2011 SISSA. Published for SISSA by Springer. Received: March 14, 2011. Revised: May 23, 2011. Accepted: July 13, 2011. Published: August 8, 2011. The authors would like to express their special thanks to Mark Wise for inspirational discussions and many extremely helpful comments at all stages of the work on this paper. We further thank Sean Carroll, Matthew Johnson and Yu Nakayama for very useful remarks. The work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-FG02-92ER40701. K.I. acknowledges the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 27278
- DOI
- 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)030
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20111018-111238782
- DE-FG02-92ER40701
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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- Caltech groups
- Caltech Theory, Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics