Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement

Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement

We propose a gauge-invariant description for the Higgs mechanism by which a gauge boson acquires the mass. We do not need to assume spontaneous breakdown of gauge symmetry signaled by a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value of the scalar field. In fact, we give a manifestly gauge-invariant descript...

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Main Author: Kondo Kei-Ichi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2017-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713703009
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spelling doaj-b08da00d12b44a46a9aac6183a2f97362021-08-02T01:13:31ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2017-01-011370300910.1051/epjconf/201713703009epjconf_conf2017_03009Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinementKondo Kei-Ichi0Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chiba UniversityWe propose a gauge-invariant description for the Higgs mechanism by which a gauge boson acquires the mass. We do not need to assume spontaneous breakdown of gauge symmetry signaled by a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value of the scalar field. In fact, we give a manifestly gauge-invariant description of the Higgs mechanism in the operator level, which does not rely on spontaneous symmetry breaking. For concreteness, we discuss the gauge-Higgs models with U(1) and SU(2) gauge groups explicitly. This enables us to discuss the confinement-Higgs complementarity from a new perspective.https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713703009
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Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement
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title Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement
title_short Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement
title_full Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement
title_fullStr Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement
title_full_unstemmed Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement
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description We propose a gauge-invariant description for the Higgs mechanism by which a gauge boson acquires the mass. We do not need to assume spontaneous breakdown of gauge symmetry signaled by a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value of the scalar field. In fact, we give a manifestly gauge-invariant description of the Higgs mechanism in the operator level, which does not rely on spontaneous symmetry breaking. For concreteness, we discuss the gauge-Higgs models with U(1) and SU(2) gauge groups explicitly. This enables us to discuss the confinement-Higgs complementarity from a new perspective.
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