Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase

2021/12/13 by Jeff Greensite, Kazue Matsuyama, Greensite, Jeff +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.06421

openalex publication_date 2021/12/13 · openalex created_date 2022/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

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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