Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1996-03-05
Nucl.Phys. B474 (1996) 217-234
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
20 pages, LaTeX2e File, 8 Postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00224-6
We study gauge boson propagators in the symmetric and symmetry broken phases of the 3-d, $SU(2)$ gauge-Higgs model. Correlation functions for the gauge fields are calculated in Landau gauge. They are found to decay exponentially at large distances leading to a non-vanishing mass for the gauge bosons. We find that the W-boson screening mass drops in the symmetry broken phase when approaching the critical temperature. In the symmetric phase the screening mass stays small and is independent of the scalar--gauge coupling (the hopping parameter). Numerical results coincide with corresponding calculations performed for the pure gauge theory. We find $m_w = 0.35(1)g^2T $ in this phase which is consistent with analytic calculations based on gap equations. This is, however, significantly smaller than masses extracted from gauge invariant vector boson correlation functions. As internal consistency check we also have calculated correlation functions for gauge invariant operators leading to scalar and vector boson masses. Finite lattice size effects have been systematically analyzed on lattices of size $L^2\times L_z$ with $L=4-24$ and $L_z = 16 - 128$.
Karsch Frithjof
Neuhaus Thomas
Patkos Andras
Rank Joern
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