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Mass Generation from Lie Algebra Extensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

Applied to the electroweak interactions, the theory of Lie algebra extensions suggests a mechanism by which the boson masses are generated without resource to spontaneous symmetry breaking. It starts from a gauge theory without any additional scalar field. All the couplings predicted by the Weinberg-Salam theory are present, and a few others which are nevertheless consistent within the model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0207095,
  title  = {Mass Generation from Lie Algebra Extensions},
  author = {R. Aldrovandi and V. C. de Andrade and A. L. Barbosa and J. G. Pereira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0207095},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages; revtex; title and PACS have been changed; comments included in the manuscript