Separation-of-charge confinement and the Higgs transition in SU(3) gauge Higgs theory

2023/10/02 by Jeff Greensite, Greensite, Jeff, Hou Y. Yau +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.01354

Abstract

With SU(3) gauge Higgs theory as an example, we examine critically the idea that the confinement property in an SU(N) gauge-Higgs theory, with the Higgs field in the fundamental representation, persists in an unbroken SU(N-1) subgroup.

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