2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207933We investigate thermalization processes occurring at different time scales in the Yang-Mills-Higgs system at high temperatures. We determine the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with the gauge fields and verify its relation to the perturbatively calculated damping rate of a static gauge boson.33 pages (revtex), 4 PS figures, submitted to PRDHigh Energy Physics - TheoryHigh Energy Physics - Latticetext