Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase

Greensite, Jeff; Matsuyama, Kazue

doi:10.3390/sym14010177

Title: Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase

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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Publication Date:: Mon Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2022

Research Org.:: San Francisco State Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1840790

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1862038

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0013682

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Symmetry

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Symmetry Journal Volume: 14 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2073-8994

Publisher:: MDPI AG

Country of Publication:: Switzerland

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; confinement; Higgs mechanism; symmetry breaking

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  abstractNote = {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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