The physical phase of dimensionally reduced gauge theories

We investigate the relationship between the high-temperature deconfined phase of the SU(2) gauge theory to the phases of the corresponding three-dimensional adjoint Higgs model. For various temperatures we simulate the effective theory in a neighbourhood of the physical states, that is of those valu...

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Published in:Nuclear physics. B 1994-04, Vol.418 (1), p.3-14
Main Authors: Kärkkäinen, L., Lacock, P., Miller, D.E., Petersson, B., Reisz, T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Electroweak interactions
Exact sciences and technology
Gauge field theories
General theory of fields and particles
Physics
Quark and lepton masses and mixing
Specific theories and interaction models
particle systematics
Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries
The physics of elementary particles and fields
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Summary:We investigate the relationship between the high-temperature deconfined phase of the SU(2) gauge theory to the phases of the corresponding three-dimensional adjoint Higgs model. For various temperatures we simulate the effective theory in a neighbourhood of the physical states, that is of those values of the coupling constants that describe the infrared behaviour of the four-dimensional theory and which have been calculated by applying dimensional reduction techniques. We show that the physical points belong to the confined phase of the SU(2) adjoint Higgs model.
ISSN:0550-3213
1873-1562
DOI:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90235-6