Generating weak gauge field masses without symmetry breaking
Journal Article
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· Bulletin of the American Physical Society
OSTI ID:386964
Semmetry is restored! The standard model of the electroweak interaction introduces an arbitrary scalar field, the Higgs field, and a fundamental symmetry breaking in nature, to generate masses for the weak gauge bosons and interacting fermions. This has long been considered unaesthetic but essential. Here, a weak scalar field is shown to be the outcome of invariance of the electroweak Lagrangian mass term under local SU(2) x U(1) gauge transformation, and leads to the generation of masses for the W and Z particles without symmetry breaking.
- OSTI ID:
- 386964
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-931044--
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Physical Society Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 38; ISSN BAPSA6; ISSN 0003-0503
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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