Wilson line in high temperature particle physics
Abstract
The physics of the Wilson line leads to new developments in high temperature particle physics. The main tool is the effective action for a given fixed value of the phase of the Wilson line. It furnishes a gauge invariant infrared cut off, and yields for small values of the phases a systematic procedure for obtaining a power series in the coupling g and glog(1/g). It breaks the centergroup symmetry of the gauge group only at high temperature so leads to domain walls disappearing at low temperatures. It shows long lived metastable states in the standard model, SU(5), SO(10) and its SUSY partners, with possibilities for CP violation and thermal inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9708043,
title = {Wilson line in high temperature particle physics},
author = {S. Bronoff and G. Dvali and K. Farakos and C. P. Korthals Altes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9708043},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Talk given at Eotvos Conference in Science: Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM 97), Eger, Hungary, 21-25 May 1997, 21 pages including figures, revised version, LaTeX, uses epsfig and sprocl