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Improved effective potential
Phys. Rev. D 49, 4113 – Published 15 April, 1994
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.4113
Abstract
It is shown that improved potentials and corrected mass terms can be introduced by using a quadratic source term in the path integral construction for the effective action. The advantage of doing things this way is that we avoid ever having to deal with complex propagators in the loop expansion. The resulting effective action for electroweak phase transitions is similar to the usual results.
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