Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Without Scalar Mesons
- 15 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 8 (10), 3338-3346
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.8.3338
Abstract
By combining the ideas of Nambu in his study of superconductivity and of Johnson, Baker, and Willey in their approach to electrodynamics we construct a gauge theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking which is free of elementary spin-zero fields. The theory contains two fermions and two vector mesons, one of which acquires a mass via the Higgs mechanism. A formula for this vector-meson mass is derived which becomes exact, and nonzero, in the limit as the strength of interaction is appropriately scaled to zero. The vacuum energy is also discussed.Keywords
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