Higgs-like mechanism for spontaneous spacetime symmetry breaking
Abstract
The study of spontaneous breakdown of spacetime symmetries leads to the discovery of another type of Higgs mechanism operating in a chiral SU(2) model. Some of the Nambu-Goldstone vector mesons emergent from simultaneous violations of gauge and Lorentz symmetries are, in this case, absorbed by a left-handed doublet and endow one of the fermions with a right-handed state, while another part becomes emergent as photons. Accordingly, this mechanism allows a chiral fermion to acquire a mass, and it may enable the emergent theory to reproduce the electromagnetism equivalent to the QED sector in the standard theory. It is also mentioned that the "fermion-boson puzzle" known in the presence of a 't Hooft--Polyakov monopole does not exist in our theory.
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@article{arxiv.1409.7730,
title = {Higgs-like mechanism for spontaneous spacetime symmetry breaking},
author = {Kimihide Nishimura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7730},
year = {2017}
}
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