Tricritical point in strongly coupled U(1) gauge theory with fermions and scalars

Abstract

We investigate the tricritical point in the lattice fermion--gauge--scalar model with U(1) gauge symmetry. In the vicinity of this point, in the phase with the broken chiral symmetry, we observe the scaling behavior of the chiral condensate and of the masses of composite fermion and composite scalar, indicating the existence of an interesting continuum limit of the model at this point.

Comments: Contribution to Lattice 95, LaTeX file (4 pages), 5 ps-figures appended (uuencoded)