Chiral symmetry breaking in strongly coupled scalar QED

Abstract

Scalar QED with fermions is investigated in an expansion in powers of the inverse gauge coupling constant. The fermion mass generation is studied in next to leading order of the strong coupling expansion for the Higgs-phase of the model. Chiral symmetry breaking is discussed. Our approach supports from a strong coupling point of view the results obtained earlier by Miransky, Bardeen and Kondo.

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures, complete uu-file avaiable on request