Gauge symmetry breaking on orbifolds
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-05-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We discuss a new method for gauge symmetry breaking in theories with one extra dimension compactified on the orbifold S^1/Z_2. If we assume that fields and their derivatives can jump at the orbifold fixed points, we can implement a generalized Scherk-Schwarz mechanism that breaks the gauge symmetry. We show that our model with discontinuous fields is equivalent to another with continuous but non periodic fields; in our scheme localized lagrangian terms for bulk fields appear.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205142,
title = {Gauge symmetry breaking on orbifolds},
author = {Carla Biggio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205142},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at the XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond, "Electroweak interactions and unified theories", Les Arcs, France, 9-16 Mar 2002. Minor changes, one reference added