On the gauge dependence of vacuum transitions at finite temperature

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Garny, Mathias ^a   Konstandin, Thomas ^a,b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865088999     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)189     Document Type: Article

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