Higgs/confinement transitions with fundamental representation matter

Abstract: It has long been known that smooth crossovers between “Higgs” regimes and “confining” regimes are possible in some gauge theories with fundamental representation matter, leading to a notion of Higgs/confinement “complementarity”. But the validity, or otherwise, of such complementarity can be subtle, especially in massless phases with Goldstone bosons. This talk will examine the presence or absence of Higgs/confinement phase transitions, when there are no distinguishing local order parameters, in both instructive models and in dense QCD.

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HEP - theory

Audience: researchers in the topic

Theoretical Physics Seminars (Kentucky)