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The Electroweak Standard Model in the Axial Gauge

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We derive the Feynman rules of the standard model in the axial gauge. After this we prove that the fields ϕW\phi_W and ϕZ\phi_Z do not correspond to physical particles. As a consequence, these fields cannot appear as incoming or outgoing lines in Feynman graphs. We then calculate the contribution of these fields in the case of a particular decay mode of the top quark.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401136,
  title  = {The Electroweak Standard Model in the Axial Gauge},
  author = {Chris Dams and Ronald Kleiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401136},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, no figures. Added derivation of polarization sum

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