Speaker
Jeff Greensite
(San Francisco State University)
Description
It is well known that a static quark-antiquark pair has a spectrum of flux-tube excitations in a pure gauge theory. In this talk I will show numerically that, in a variety of gauge Higgs theories in the non-confining Higgs phase, there is also a spectrum of excitations of the gauge and Higgs fields surrounding a static fermion-antifermion pair. These are localized and stable excitations which can exist at large fermion-antifermion separations, and which cannot decay into the ground state plus one or more vector or Higgs bosons.
Primary author
Jeff Greensite
(San Francisco State University)
Co-author
Dr
Kazue Matsuyama
(San Francisco State University)
