Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase

Journal Article · 16 January 2022 · Symmetry

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010177 · OSTI ID:1840790

Greensite, Jeff ; Matsuyama, Kazue

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.

• Research Organization: San Francisco State Univ., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0013682
• OSTI ID: 1840790
• Journal Information: Symmetry, Journal Name: Symmetry Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 14; ISSN SYMMAM; ISSN 2073-8994
• Publisher: MDPI AGCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: Switzerland
• Language: English