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SUSY Variants of the Electroweak Phase Transition

arXiv:hep-ph/9809506 · doi:10.1007/s100529900135

Abstract

The MSSM with a light right-handed stop and supersymmetric models with a singlet whose vev is comparable to that of the SU(2)_W Higgs allow for a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition even for a mass of the lightest Higgs around 100 GeV. After a short review of the standard model situation we discuss these supersymmetric models. We also compare perturbative calculations based on the dimensionally reduced 3-dimensional action with lattice results and present an analytic procedure based on an analogue of the stochastic vacuum model of QCD to estimate the nonperturbative contributions.

18pp., Latex, 12 figures, references added, some typos corrected

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