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arXiv:1606.06194 (hep-th)
[Submitted on 20 Jun 2016 (v1), last revised 21 Sep 2016 (this version, v4)]

Title:Gauge-invariant description of Higgs phenomenon and quark confinement

Authors:Kei-Ichi Kondo
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Abstract:We propose a novel description for the Higgs mechanism by which a gauge boson acquires the mass. We do not 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. This enables us to discuss the confinement-Higgs complementarity from a new perspective. The "Abelian" dominance in quark confinement of the Yang-Mills theory is understood as a consequence of the gauge-invariant Higgs phenomenon for the relevant Yang-Mills-Higgs model.
Comments: 7 pages, no figures, final version to be published in Physics Letters B, Title changed
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Report number: CHIBA-EP-219
Cite as: arXiv:1606.06194 [hep-th]
  (or arXiv:1606.06194v4 [hep-th] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1606.06194
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.026

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From: Kei-Ichi Kondo [view email]
[v1] Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:20:20 UTC (13 KB)
[v2] Wed, 20 Jul 2016 03:47:56 UTC (17 KB)
[v3] Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:42:31 UTC (20 KB)
[v4] Wed, 21 Sep 2016 05:57:52 UTC (20 KB)
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