Sphaleron transitions in the minimal standard model and the upper bound for the Higgs boson mass

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3366-3391

  Diakonov, Dmitri ^a   Polyakov, Maxim ^a   Sieber, Peter ^b   Schaldach, Jörg ^b   Goeke, Klaus ^b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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EID: 0000013157     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.3366     Document Type: Article

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