1998/09/18 by S. Bronoff, RAFFAELE BUFFA, R. Buffa +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9809452
Contributing paper to the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their Applications, Regensburg, Germany, August 10-14, 1998. Corrected typos, changes in wording
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Thermally reduced QCD leads to three dimensional SU(3) gaugefields coupled to an adjoint scalar field A0. We compute the effective potential in the one-loop approximation and evaluate the VEV's of TrA02 and TrA03. In the Higgs phase not only the former, but also the latter has a VEV. This happens where the SU(3) gauge symmetry is broken minimally with U(2) still unbroken. It is plausible that in the Higgs phase one has a transition for large enough Higgs selfcoupling to a region where TrA03 has no VEV and where the gaugesymmetry is broken maximally to U(1)× U(1).