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Measuring the interface tension when the electroweak phase transition becomes weak

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We measure the interface tension near the phase transition endpoint of the 3d SU(2)-Higgs model. The tunnel correlation length method is used and compared to other approaches. A modified scaling behaviour for the mass gap as function of the transverse area is proposed.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, D-04109, Leipzig, Germany

    M. Gürtler & A. Schiller

  2. Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115, Berlin, Germany

    E. -M. Ilgenfritz

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Gürtler, M., Ilgenfritz, E.M. & Schiller, A. Measuring the interface tension when the electroweak phase transition becomes weak. Eur. Phys. J. C 1, 363–368 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01245826

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