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Dynamical Mass Generation for Non-Abelian Gauge Fields without the Higgs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present an alternative to the Higgs mechanism to generate masses for non-abelian gauge fields in (3+1)-dimensions. The initial Lagrangian is composed of a fermion with current-current and dipole-dipole type self-interactions minimally coupled to non-abelian gauge fields. The mass generation occurs upon the fermionic functional integration. We show that by fine-tuning the coupling constants the effective theory contains massive non-abelian gauge fields without any residual scalars or other degrees of freedom.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9404088,
  title  = {Dynamical Mass Generation for Non-Abelian Gauge Fields without the Higgs},
  author = {Didier Caenepeel and Martin Leblanc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9404088},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, UdeM-LPN-TH-94-194, CRM-2169

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