Higgs Mechanism and Debye Screening in the Generalized Electrodynamics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-09-12 v1
Abstract
In this work we study the Higgs mechanism and the Debye shielding for the Bopp-Podolsky theory of electrodynamics. We find that not only the massless sector of the Podolsky theory acquires a mass in both these phenomena, but also that its massive sector has its mass changed. Furthermore, we find a mathematical analogy in the way these masses change between these two mechanisms. Besides exploring the behaviour of the screened potentials, we find a temperature for which the presence of the generalized gauge field may be experimentally detected.
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@article{arxiv.1909.04731,
title = {Higgs Mechanism and Debye Screening in the Generalized Electrodynamics},
author = {C. A. Bonin and G. B. de Gracia and A. A. Nogueira and B. M. Pimentel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04731},
year = {2019}
}