Separation-of-charge confinement and the Higgs transition in SU(3) gauge Higgs theory

Abstract

With SU(3) gauge Higgs theory as an example, we examine critically the idea that the confinement property in an SU(N) gauge-Higgs theory, with the Higgs field in the fundamental representation, persists in an unbroken SU(N-1) subgroup.

Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures