Relationship between longitudinally polarized vector bosons and their unphysical scalar partners
- 15 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 34 (10), 3257-3259
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.34.3257
Abstract
We present a new and simple proof of the Lee-Quigg-Thacker theorem concerning the equivalence of longitudinally polarized W and Z bosons and their would-be-Goldstone partners. The proof rests on the Becchi-Rouet-Stora invariance of the gauge theory.Keywords
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