Is confinement a phase of broken dual gauge symmetry?

Journal Article · Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.78.085004· OSTI ID:21254468

Greensite, J ^[1]; Lucini, B ^[2]

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1. Physics and Astronomy Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP (United Kingdom)

We study whether broken dual gauge symmetry, as detected by a monopole order parameter introduced by the Pisa group, is necessarily associated with the confinement phase of a lattice gauge theory. We find a number of examples, including SU(2) gauge-Higgs theory, mixed fundamental-adjoint SU(2) gauge theory, and pure SU(5) gauge theory, which appear to indicate a dual gauge symmetry transition in the absence of a transition to or from a confined phase. While these results are not necessarily fatal to the dual superconductor hypothesis, they may pose some problems of interpretation for the present formulation of the Pisa monopole criterion.

• OSTI ID: 21254468
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.085004; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CONFINEMENT
GAUGE INVARIANCE
HIGGS BOSONS
HIGGS MODEL
HYPOTHESIS
LATTICE FIELD THEORY
MONOPOLES
ORDER PARAMETERS
SU-2 GROUPS
SU-5 GROUPS
SUPERCONDUCTORS
SYMMETRY BREAKING