Phase structure of the 5D abelian Higgs model with anisotropic couplings

Authors
Dimopoulos, P Farakos, K Koutsoumbas, G Korthals-Altes, CP Nicolis, S
Citation
P. Dimopoulos et al., Phase structure of the 5D abelian Higgs model with anisotropic couplings, J HIGH EN P, 2001(2), 2001, pp. NIL_83-NIL_104
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
ISSN journal
10298479 → ACNP
Volume
2001
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
NIL_83 - NIL_104
Database
ISI
SICI code
1029-8479(200102)2001:2<NIL_83:PSOT5A>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We establish the phase diagram of the five-dimensional anisotropic abelian Higgs model by mean field techniques and Monte Carlo simulations. The aniso tropy is encoded in the gauge couplings as well as in the Higgs couplings. In addition to the usual bulk phases (confining, Coulomb and Higgs) we find four-dimensional "layered" phases (3-branes) at weak gauge coupling, where the layers may be in either the Coulomb or the Higgs phase, while the tran sverse directions are confining.