Gauge boson

About: Gauge boson is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12279 publications have been published within this topic receiving 399874 citations.

Symmetry Breaking in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

Abstract: According to the Goldstone theorem, any manifestly covariant broken-symmetry theory must exhibit massless particles. However, it is known from previous work that such particles need not appear in a relativistic theory such as radiation-gauge electrodynamics, which lacks manifest covariance. Higgs has shown how the massless Goldstone particles may be eliminated from a theory with broken $U(1)$ symmetry by coupling in the electromagnetic field. The primary purpose of this paper is to discuss the analogous problem for the case of broken non-Abelian gauge symmetries. In particular, a model is exhibited which shows how the number of massless particles in a theory of this type is determined, and the possibility of having a broken non-Abelian gauge symmetry with no massless particles whatever is established. A secondary purpose is to investigate the relationship between the radiation-gauge and Lorentz-gauge formalisms. The Abelian-gauge case is reexamined, in order to show that, contrary to some previous assertions, the Lorentz-gauge formalism, properly handled, is perfectly consistent, and leads to physical conclusions identical with those reached using the radiation gauge.

Hierarchy of interactions in unified gauge theories

Abstract: We present a general formalism for calculating the renormalization effects which make strong interactions strong in simple gauge theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. In an SU(5) model the superheavy gauge bosons arising in the spontaneous breakdown to observed interactions have mass perhaps as large as ${10}^{17}$ GeV, almost the Planck mass. Mixing-angle predictions are substantially modified.

Dynamics of the Standard Model

Abstract: Preface Inputs to the standard model Interactions of the standard model Symmetries and anomalies Introduction to effective Lagrangians Leptons Very low energy QCD - Pions and photons Introducing kaons and etas Kaons and the S=1 interaction Kaon mixing and CP violation The large N expansion Phenomenological models Baryon properties Hadron spectroscopy Weak interactions of heavy quarks The Higgs boson The electroweak gauge bosons Appendices References Index.

The physics of heavy Z' gauge bosons

Abstract: The $\mathrm{U}{(1)}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ symmetry associated with a possible heavy ${Z}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ would have profound implications for particle physics and cosmology. The motivations for such particles in various extensions of the standard model, possible ranges for their masses and couplings, and classes of anomaly-free models are discussed. Present limits from electroweak and collider experiments are briefly surveyed, as are prospects for discovery and diagnostic study at future colliders. Implications of a ${Z}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ are discussed, including an extended Higgs sector, extended neutralino sector, and solution to the $\ensuremath{\mu}$ problem in supersymmetry; exotic fermions needed for anomaly cancellation; possible flavor changing neutral current effects; neutrino mass; possible ${Z}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ mediation of supersymmetry breaking; and cosmological implications for cold dark matter and electroweak baryogenesis.