Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 349 - 352 (1997)

Supersymmetry and Broken Symmetries at High Temperature

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Antonio Riotto1 and Goran Senjanović2
1Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
2International Center for Theoretical Physics, 34100 Trieste, Italy

Received 12 February 1997

It is generally believed that internal symmetries are necessarily restored at high temperature in supersymmetric theories. We provide simple and natural counterexamples to this no-go theorem for systems having a net background charge. We exemplify our findings on Abelian models, for both cases of global and local symmetries, and discuss their possible implications.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/p349
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.349
PACS: 11.30.Qc, 11.10.Wx, 11.30.Pb, 98.80.Cq

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