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Volume 129, Number 2, January 2020
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Article Number | 21002 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/129/21002 | |
Published online | 14 February 2020 |
Remarks on a compact Abelian Higgs model
1 Departamento de Física and Centro Científico- Tecnológico de Valparaíso-CCTVal, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Valparaíso, Chile
2 Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF) - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Received: 26 December 2019
Accepted: 28 January 2020
Aspects of screening and confinement are re-examined for a recently proposed compact Abelian Higgs model with a θ-term. Our discussion is accomplished using the gauge-invariant but path-dependent variables formalism, which is an alternative to the Wilson loop approach. We explicitly show that the static potential profile is the sum of an effective-Yukawa and a linear potential, leading to the confinement of static external charges. We point out the central role of the parameter measuring the stiffness of the vortex lines present in the model in both the Yukawa-like and the confining sectors of the effective inter-particle potential we have computed.
PACS: 14.70.-e – Gauge bosons / 12.60.Cn – Extensions of electroweak gauge sector / 13.40.Gp – Electromagnetic form factors
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