Higgsing Gauge Symmetries with Reduced Staggered Fermions

Abstract

We show how a strongly coupled lattice theory consisting of just fermions and gauge fields can exhibit a dynamical Higgs mechanism through the formation of a gauge invariant four fermion condensate. Furthermore, we argue that the resultant lattice Higgs phase may survive into the continuum limit.

Comments: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice 2013, Mainz, Germany