English

The Physics of the Chiral Fermions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

We review the aspects of chiral gauge theories related to the violation of the decoupling property. The case of the top quark is worked out in detail. The mechanism of anomaly cancellation in the low-energy effective theory is illustrated in a simple model.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9405260,
  title  = {The Physics of the Chiral Fermions},
  author = {Ferruccio Feruglio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9405260},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

37 pages, LaTeX, DFPD 94/TH/32, Lectures given at the XVII International School of Theoretical Physics "Standard Model and Beyond '93", Sczcyrk (Poland), September 19-27, 1993