Phase Structure of the 5D Abelian Higgs Model with Anisotropic Couplings

P. Dimopoulos, K. Farakos, C. P. Korthals-Altes +2

We establish the phase diagram of the five-dimensional anisotropic Abelian Higgs model by mean field techniques and Monte Carlo simulations. The anisotropy is encoded in the gauge…