Electroweak Physics and the Early Universe: NATO Science Series B:, cartea 338

3-D Physics and the Electroweak Phase Transition: Perturbation Theory and Lattice Monte Carlo Analysis.- Dynamical Evolution of the Electroweak Phase Transition.- Gauge Invariant Effective Potential and 4-D Lattice Simulations of the Electroweak Phase Transition.- On the Strength of First Order Phase Transitions.- An Overview of the ?-Expansion and the Electroweak Phase Transition.- The Electroweak Phase Transition in Extended Models.- Some Non-Perturbative Aspects of the Electroweak Phase Transition.- Electroweak Baryogenesis: Problems and Prospects.- A Note on Spontaneous Baryogenesis.- Tau Leptons and Top Quarks in a ‘non-local’ Baryogenesis at the Electroweak Phase Transition.- Preventing Baryon Washout with Z’.- Baryogenesis from a Primordial Lepton Asymmetry.- Electroweak Phase Changes in Two Higgs Models.- On Primordial Magnetic Fields.- Another Look at the Electroweak Vortex Solution.- Electroweak Baryogenesis with Topological Defects.- Electroweak Strings, Sphalerons and Magnetic Fields.- Electroweak Strings Produce Baryons.- Electroweak Strings and Topology.- Sphalerons and Strings.- Existence and Stability of Spinning Embedded Vortices.- Effective Potential for the Wilson Line in the Standard Model.- Fluctuations at Phase Transitions.- High Temperature Field Theory Beyond Perturbation Theory.- High Temperature Phase Transitions with the Effective Average Action.- Exact Renormalization Group Equations for Gauge Theories.- Environmentally Friendly Renormalization in Finite-Temperature Field Theory.- Sphaleron-like Transitions at High Temperatures.- Fluctuation Corrections to the Transition Rate of the Electroweak Sphaleron.- Hot Abelian Higgs Model: Real-Time Properties.- Non-Equilibrium Evolution of Disoriented Chiral Condensates.- Non-EquilibriumQuantum Field Evolution in FRW Cosmologies.- A Report on Quantum Spinodal Decomposition.- NonPerturbative Evaluation of the Sphaleron Transition Rate.- Bubble Nucleation in Theories with Symmetry Breaking by Radiative Corrections.- One-Loop Corrections to the Bubble Nucleation Rate at Finite Temperature.- Hydrodynamics of Bubble Growth.- Quantum Scattering and Classical Solutions.- Spherical Shells of Classical Gauge Field and Their Topological Charge as a Perturbative Expansion.- In Search of Classical Trajectories.- Possible Instability of the Effective Potential in a Scalar Model due to Extra Dimensions.- Gravitinos in the Early Universe.- On the Problem of the Magnetic Mass.- Next-to-Leading Order Debye-Screening in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories.- Hierarchy of Effective Models.- Derivative Corrections in a Scalar Theory.