Published September 25, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of bare mass on the Hosotani mechanism

Description

It is pointed out that the existence of bare mass terms for matter fields changes gauge symmetry patterns through the Hosotani mechanism. As a demonstration, we study an SU(2) gauge model with massive adjoint fermions defined on M4 x S1. It turns out that the vacuum structure changes at certain critical values of mL, where m (L) stands for the bare mass (the circumference of S1). The gauge symmetry breaking patterns are different from models with massless adjoint fermions. We also consider a supersymmmetric SU(2) gauge model with adjoint hypermultiplets, in which the supersymmetry is broken by bare mass terms for the gaugino and squark fields instead of the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2003.07.062;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0305251v2;
PII
S0370269303011201;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
570
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 244-250
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37105965
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
FERMIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MASS; MATTER; SU-2 GROUPS; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.