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Line Operators in the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-13 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

There is an ambiguity in the gauge group of the Standard Model. The group is G=SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)/ΓG = SU(3) \times SU(2) \times U(1)/\Gamma, where Γ\Gamma is a subgroup of Z6{\bf Z}_6 which cannot be determined by current experiments. We describe how the electric, magnetic and dyonic line operators of the theory depend on the choice of Γ\Gamma. We also explain how the periodicity of the theta angles, associated to each factor of GG, differ.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01853,
  title  = {Line Operators in the Standard Model},
  author = {David Tong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01853},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages. 5 figures. v2: typos corrected

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