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Global restrictions to the Mixing Angle $\theta_W$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We provide the theoretic value 1/2 for the quantity sin2θW=e2/g2\sin**2\theta_W=e**2/g**2, as opposite to the experimental value of sin2θW=1MW2/MZ20.23\sin**2\theta_W=1-M_W**2/M_Z**2 \sim 0.23, in the electro-weak gauge group SU(2)U(1)YSU(2)\otimes U(1)_Y. The arguments we use are of topological nature and have to do with natural requirements of globality in the transformations of the gauge algebra. This results supports the idea that the two definitions of sin2θW\sin**2\theta_W cannot be simultaneously identified except, maybe, in an asymptotic limit corresponding to an earlier stage of the Universe, before the spontaneous symmetry breaking had taken place.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702071,
  title  = {Global restrictions to the Mixing Angle $\theta_W$},
  author = {M. Calixto and V. Aldaya and J. Guerrero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702071},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

3 pages, Latex2e, Presented at 21st International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Goslar, Germany, 15-20 Jul 1996