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Effect of Bare Mass on the Hosotani Mechanism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

It is pointed out that the existence of bare mass terms for matter fields changes gauge symmetry patterns through the Hosotani mechanism. As a demonstration, we study an SU(2) gauge model with massive adjoint fermions defined on M4S1M^4\otimes S^1. It turns out that the vacuum structure changes at certain critical values of mLmL, where m (L)m~(L) stands for the bare mass (the circumference of S1S^1). The gauge symmetry breaking patterns are different from models with massless adjoint fermions. We also consider a supersymmmetric SU(2) gauge model with adjoint hypermultiplets, in which the supersymmetry is broken by bare mass terms for the gaugino and squark fields instead of the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0305251,
  title  = {Effect of Bare Mass on the Hosotani Mechanism},
  author = {Kazunori Takenaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0305251},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B