Quantization of the Freedman-Townsend model of massive vector mesons

Journal Article · Sat Nov 30 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Modern Physics Letters A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732391003870· OSTI ID:5305199

Leblanc, M ^[1]; McKeon, D G.C. ^[2]; Rebhan, A ^[3]; Sherry, T N ^[4]

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1. Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1 (CA)
2. Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B9 (CA)
3. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23 (CH)
4. Dept. of Mathematical Physics, Univ. College Galway, Galway (IE)

This paper examines a model for massive vector mesons in four dimensions proposed by Freedman and Townsend, where the masses for non-Abelian vector gauge fields are generated without symmetry breaking through a gauge invariant coupling to anti-symmetric tensor fields. The model is quantized using the formalism of Batalin and Vilkovisky. While the Abelian version immediately gives a renormalizable model for massive vector fields, it is shown that in the non- Abelian case the addition of an extra gauge invariant term in the initial Lagrangian leads to an ultraviolet behavior consistent with power-counting renormalizability.

• OSTI ID: 5305199
• Journal Information: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States), Journal Name: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States) Vol. 6:36; ISSN 0217-7323; ISSN MPLAE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BOSONS
COUPLING
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
FUNCTIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
HADRONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION
MASS SPECTRA
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MESONS
PARTICLE MODELS
QUANTIZATION
RENORMALIZATION
SPECTRA
SYMMETRY
TENSORS
ULTRAVIOLET DIVERGENCES
VECTOR FIELDS
VECTOR MESONS