Published September 25, 2003
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Journal article
Effect of bare mass on the Hosotani mechanism
Creators
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
Additional details
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
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.