Progress in Gauge-Higgs Unification on the Lattice

Understand

We study a five-dimensional pure SU(2) gauge theory formulated on the orbifold and discretized on the lattice by means of Monte Carlo simulations.

• The gauge symmetry is explicitly broken to U(1) at the orbifold boundaries.
• The action is the Wilson plaquette action with a modified weight for the boundary U(1) plaquettes.
• We study the phase transition and present results for the spectrum and the shape of the static potential on the boundary.