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

Conference · Wed Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 1992 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:6698288

Petcher, D N ^[1]

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

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.

• OSTI ID: 6698288
• Report Number(s): CONF-920837-; CODEN: APCPCS
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 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; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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