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A hidden symmetry in the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v6 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We found an additional symmetry hidden in the fermion and Higgs sectors of the Standard Model. It is connected to the centers of the SU(3) and SU(2) subgroups of the gauge group. A lattice regularization of the whole Standard Model is constructed that possesses this symmetry.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0301011,
  title  = {A hidden symmetry in the Standard Model},
  author = {B. L. G. Bakker and A. I. Veselov and M. A. Zubkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0301011},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, no figures. Shortened version