Electroweak Theory Without Higgs Bosons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
A perturbative SU(2)_L X U(1)_Y electroweak theory containing W, Z, photon, ghost, lepton and quark fields, but no Higgs or other fields, gives masses to W, Z and the non-neutrino fermions by means of an unconventional choice for the unperturbed Lagrangian and a novel method of renormalisation. The renormalisation extends to all orders. The masses emerge on renormalisation to one loop. To one loop the neutrinos are massless, the A -> Z transition drops out of the theory, the d quark is unstable and S-matrix elements are independent of the gauge parameter xi.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9706471,
title = {Electroweak Theory Without Higgs Bosons},
author = {Angus F. Nicholson and Dallas C. Kennedy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9706471},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
27 pages, LaTex, no figures; revised for publication; accepted by Int. J. Mod. Phys. A; includes biographical note on A. F. Nicholson