The search for chiral fermions from the lattice: A status report

Petcher, D N

Title: The search for chiral fermions from the lattice: A status report

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The status of various proposals for obtaining a field theory of chiral fermions from a lattice theory is reviewed. Aside from giving a general summary of the models currently being considered and the status of what is known about each, I explain in some more detail recent work indicating that several models including models due to Smit and Swift and to Eichten and Preskill do not result in a continuum theory of chiral fermions, and I also review a new and interesting proposal by Kaplan for obtaining a chiral fermion spectrum in even dimensions by exploiting known results about theories in one higher dimension.

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Petcher, D N ^[1]

Department of Physics, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI Identifier:: 6698288

Report Number(s):: CONF-920837-
Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X; CODEN: APCPCS

Resource Type:: Conference

Journal Name:: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 272:2; Conference: ICHEP-26: 26th International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) conference on high energy physics, Dallas, TX (United States), 6-12 Aug 1992; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; FERMIONS; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; DIRAC EQUATION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HIGGS MODEL; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY; WAVE EQUATIONS; 662120* - General Theory of Particles & Fields- Symmetry, Conservation Laws, Currents & Their Properties- (1992-); 662230 - Quantum Chromodynamics- (1992-)

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