Inertial Symmetry Breaking

Journal Article · Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · TBD

OSTI ID:1436718

Hill, Christopher T.

We review and expand upon recent work demonstrating that Weyl invariant theories can be broken "inertially," which does not depend upon a potential. This can be understood in a general way by the "current algebra" of these theories, independently of specific Lagrangians. Maintaining the exact Weyl invariance in a renormalized quantum theory can be accomplished by renormalization conditions that refer back to the VEV's of fields in the action. We illustrate the computation of a Weyl invariant Coleman-Weinberg potential that breaks a U(1) symmetry together,with scale invariance.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1436718
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-18-076-T; arXiv:1803.06994; 1663367
• Journal Information: TBD, Journal Name: TBD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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