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arxiv 2602.06962 v2 pith:NPYQ6HAJ submitted 2026-02-06 hep-ph hep-th

Hard thermal contributions to phase transition observables at NNLO

classification hep-ph hep-th
keywords three-loopparametersabeliancontributionscorrectionsdebyeeffectivegauge
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To construct the high-temperature effective field theory of gauge-Higgs models up to $\mathcal{O}(g^6)$ in the gauge coupling, we integrate out hard modes to three-loop level and use the next-to-next-to-leading order effective potential. For the Abelian Higgs model, we quantify the impact of both higher-dimensional operators and higher-loop corrections on thermodynamic parameters relevant for gravitational-wave observables, finding that one-loop dimension-six effects typically dominate over two- and three-loop corrections to super-renormalizable parameters for the strongest transitions. We derive the three-loop scalar and Debye masses for the ${\rm U(1)}$ and ${\rm SU}(N)$ gauge-Higgs models, as well as the two-loop quartic couplings for the Abelian case, show gauge independence of physical parameters, and demonstrate that no new master integrals are required for the matching, while consistency of 4d and 3d renormalizability points to previously missing contributions in these master integrals. As a byproduct, we report a previously missing contribution to the three-loop QCD Debye mass.

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