Abstract
Charges are confined in a monopole condensate. We investigate a model based on an SU(2) Higgs model in which the preferred ground state has a nonzero value of the monopole field. For temperatures when (T)1 the model suggests a first-order confining-deconfining phase transition. The inclusion of massive fermions weakens this phase transition and it disappears completely when the fermion mass is comparable to the confining scale.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1221-1224 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1989 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)