The Higgs mechanism as a cut-off effect
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-10-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We compute the Coleman-Weinberg potential with a finite cut-off for pure SU(2) and SU(3) five-dimensional gauge theories compactified on an interval. We show that besides the expected Coulomb phase located at and in the vicinity of the free infrared stable or "trivial" fixed point, the theory possesses also a Higgs phase. We compare the results from the potential computation with lattice data from simulations.
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@article{arxiv.0706.3806,
title = {The Higgs mechanism as a cut-off effect},
author = {Nikos Irges and Francesco Knechtli and Magdalena Luz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3806},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
22 pages, 5 figures; introduction improved, conclusions added, published in JHEP