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Spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking in a supersymmetric Chern-Simons model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

This works presents a perturbative analysis of the supersymmetric Chern-Simons model in three spacetime dimensions coupled to a Higgs field, using the superfield formalism. We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the U(1) gauge symmetry and evaluate the first quantum corrections to the effective action in the broken phase. We show that the infinite renormalization of the gap equation is enough to ensure the renormalizability of the model at the first loop level.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3280,
  title  = {Spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking in a supersymmetric Chern-Simons model},
  author = {A. C. Lehum and A. F. Ferrari and M. Gomes and A. J. da Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3280},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages, 8 figures, journal version (Phys.Rev.D)