Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2021-12-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We show that the Higgs and confinement phases of a gauge Higgs theory, with the Higgs field in the fundamental representation of the gauge group, are distinguished both by a broken or unbroken realization of the global center subgroup of the gauge group, and by the type of confinement in each phase. This is color confinement in the Higgs phase, and a stronger property, which we call "separation-of-charge" confinement, in the confining phase.
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@article{arxiv.2112.06421,
title = {Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase},
author = {Jeff Greensite and Kazue Matsuyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.06421},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
9 pages, 5 figures. Review article for the journal Symmetry. v2: Reference added