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Neutral currents and Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism in SU(3)[sub [ital L]][direct product]U(1)[sub [ital N]] models for electroweak interactions

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
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  1. Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900 Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
We study the Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism for flavor-changing neutral-current suppression in both the gauge and Higgs sectors, for models with SU(3)[sub [ital L]][direct product]U(1)[sub [ital N]] gauge symmetry. The models differ from one another only with respect to the representation content. The main features of these models are that in order to cancel the triangle anomalies the number of families must be divisible by three (the number of colors) and that the lepton number is violated by some lepton-gauge bosons and lepton-scalar interactions.
OSTI ID:
6704488
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 47:7; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English