Is There Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Gauge Theories with the Higgs-Kibble Mechanism?
- 15 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 8 (8), 2721-2724
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.8.2721
Abstract
It is argued that gauge theories with the Higgs-Kibble mechanism do not involve the spontaneous breaking of physical symmetries. The relationships between masses and coupling constants, usually considered a manifestation of the remnant of the symmetry, can be obtained, at least in the Abelian-Higgs model, directly from renormalizability and unitarity requirements.Keywords
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