Flowing to four dimensions
E. Dudas, C. Papineau, V.A. Rubakov

TL;DR
This paper investigates a six-dimensional scalar field with a four-dimensional brane-localized Higgs potential, revealing a phase transition and a light mode near the critical point, with implications for symmetry breaking and spectrum independence from UV cutoff.
Contribution
It introduces a model with brane-localized Higgs potential in six dimensions, analyzing classical renormalization group effects and phase transition behavior.
Findings
A phase transition occurs at a critical bare mass parameter.
Near the transition, a very light mode appears in the spectrum.
The Kaluza-Klein spectrum becomes UV cutoff independent at criticality.
Abstract
We analyze the properties of a model with four-dimensional brane-localized Higgs type potential of a six dimensional scalar field satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition on the boundary of a transverse two-dimensional compact space. The regularization of the localized couplings generates classical renormalization group running. A tachyonic mass parameter grows in the infrared, in analogy with the QCD gauge coupling in four dimensions. We find a phase transition at a critical value of the bare mass parameter such that the running mass parameter becomes large in the infrared precisely at the compactification scale. Below the critical coupling, the theory is in symmetric phase, whereas above it spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs. Close to the phase transition point there is a very light mode in the spectrum. The massive Kaluza-Klein spectrum at the critical coupling becomes…
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