Infrared singularities and suppression of bosons in massless Abelian gauge theory

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1977 · Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:7084801

Miranskii, V A; Sitenko, Y A; Fomin, P I

Infrared singularities in massless Abelian gauge theory are studied taking into account degeneracy of states. The vacuum polarization causes the physical charge to vanish and suppresses real excitations of the boson field. Nevertheless, in this theory there is a neutral current interaction between fermions. It is concluded that charged massless fermions cannot exist.

• Research Organization: Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
• OSTI ID: 7084801
• Journal Information: Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 25:6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
FIELD THEORIES
INFRARED DIVERGENCES
BOSONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
MASSLESS PARTICLES
NEUTRAL-CURRENT INTERACTIONS
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
VACUUM POLARIZATION
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
INTERACTIONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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