International Journal of
Physical Sciences

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Phys. Sci.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-1950
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPS
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2569

Full Length Research Paper

Five-dimensional field theory at finite temperature in the symmetric and broken phases

A. Tofighi* and M. Moazzen
Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mazandaran, P. O. Box 47416-1467, Babolsar, Iran.    
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 06 January 2012
  •  Published: 23 January 2012

Abstract

We examine the behavior of  theory in five dimensions. We provide the effective potential for the symmetric and broken symmetry phase. Our results suggests that due to the presence of an infinite flat extra dimension, the transition from the broken phase to the symmetric case can be delayed with respect to the four dimensional case. We also find that the phase transition at one-loop cannot be of the first-order.

 

Key words: Extra dimension, scalar fields, phase transition.