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arxiv 1811.01512 v1 pith:GQF6KKAQ submitted 2018-11-05 hep-lat hep-th

On the distinction between color confinement, and confinement

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keywords confinementcolorgauge-higgstheoriescriterionhiggsphasewill
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The property of color confinement ("C confinement"), meaning that all asymptotic particle states are color neutral, holds not only in QCD, but also in gauge-Higgs theories deep in the Higgs regime. In this talk we describe a new and stronger confinement criterion, separation-of-charge confinement or "S$_c$ confinement," which is an extension of the Wilson area-law criterion to gauge + matter theories. We will show that there is a transition between S$_c$ and C confinement in the phase plane of gauge-Higgs theories, and we will also explain what symmetry is actually broken in the Higgs phase of a gauge-Higgs theory.

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