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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Nonlocal Scalar QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-13 v1

Abstract

We investigate the spontaneous symmetry breaking in a nonlocal version of the scalar QED. When the mass parameter m2m^2 satisfies the requirement m2>0m^2>0, we find that all fields, including the Nambu-Goldstone field, acquire a non-zero mass dependent on the nonlocal scales. On the other hand, when m2=0m^2=0, we find that the nonlocal corrections to the masses are very small and can be neglected.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04456,
  title  = {Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Nonlocal Scalar QED},
  author = {F. S. Gama and J. R. Nascimento and A. Yu. Petrov and P. J. Porfirio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04456},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages