Higgs mechanism in five-dimensional gauge theories
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-04-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Lattice simulations of five-dimensional gauge theories on an orbifold revealed that there is spontaneous symmetry breaking. Some of the extra-dimensional components of the gauge field play the role of a Higgs field and some of the four-dimensional components become massive gauge bosons. The effect is confirmed by computing the Coleman-Weinberg potential with a cutoff. We compare the results of this computation with the lattice data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0709.4549,
title = {Higgs mechanism in five-dimensional gauge theories},
author = {Magdalena Luz and Nikos Irges and Francesco Knechtli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4549},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Talk presented at Lattice2007, Regensburg, July 30 - August 4, 2007; 7 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected