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We discuss the chirally symmetric solution of the massless, quenched, Dyson-Schwinger equation for the fermion propagator in three and four dimensions. The solutions are manifestly gauge covariant. We consider a gauge covariance constraint…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-04 Zhihua Dong , Herman J. Munczek , Craig D. Roberts

It has been conjectured that spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in strongly coupled vectorlike gauge theories falls into only three different classes, depending on the gauge group and the representations carried by the fermions. We test…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Damgaard , U. M. Heller , R. Niclasen , B. Svetitsky

The exact analytic solutions of the linearized Schwinger-Dyson equation of fermion self-energy are used to obtain the effective four-fermion and gauge coupling criticality curves for dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. The results show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Bang-Rong Zhou

Assuming dynamical spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry for massless gauge theory without scalar fields, we present a method how to construct an effective action of the dynamical Nambu-Goldstone bosons and elemetary fermions by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Matsuki , M. Shiotani , R. W. Haymaker

We study the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry in the 3-d Thirring model for a small number of fermion species. The critical point is identified by fitting lattice data to an equation of state. The spectrum of the theory is studied to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Del Debbio

In the quenched approximation, the gauge covariance properties of three vertex Ans\"{a}tze in the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the fermion self energy are analysed in three- and four- dimensional quantum electrodynamics. Based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 Conrad J. Burden , Craig D. Roberts

We analyze patterns of dynamical symmetry breaking in strongly coupled chiral gauge theories with direct-product gauge groups $G$. If the gauge coupling for a factor group $G_i \subset G$ becomes sufficiently strong, it can produce bilinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-04 Yan-Liang Shi , Robert Shrock

We study the specific role that the Ward-Green-Takahashi identity plays in the restoration of the gauge independence of the physical observables related to the phenomenon of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in QED3, the chiral condensate and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Raya

We consider a model with anomaly-free Abelian gauge axial-vector symmetry, which is intended to mimic the standard electroweak gauge chiral SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y theory. Within this model we demonstrate: (1) Strong Yukawa interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Petr Benes , Tomas Brauner , Jiri Hosek

We formulate field theories in fractal space and show the phase diagrams of the coupling versus the fractal dimension for the dynamical symmetry breaking. We first consider the 4-dimensional Gross-Neveu (GN) model in the (4-d)-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Yukinori Nagatani

We present a new picture of global symmetry breaking in quantum field theory and propose a novel realization of symmetry breaking phenomena in terms of the conserved charge associated with its symmetry. In particular, the fermion condensate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Fujita , M. Hiramoto , T. Homma , M. Matsumoto , H. Takahashi

We study chiral symmetry breaking using the standard gap equation, supplemented with the infrared-finite gluon propagator and ghost dressing function obtained from large-volume lattice simulations. One of the most important ingredients of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 A. C. Aguilar , J. Papavassiliou

We consider the problem of designing an Ansatz for the fermion-photon vertex function, using three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics as a test case. In many existing studies, restrictions have been placed on the form of the vertex Ansatz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-11 C. J. Burden , P. C. Tjiang

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is studied within a simple version of the light-front sigma model with fermions. Its vacuum structure is derived by an implementation of global symmetries in terms of unitary operators in a finite volume with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 L. Martinovic , J. P. Vary

We derive perturbative constraints on the transverse part of the fermion-boson vertex in massive QED3 through its one loop evaluation in an arbitrary covariant gauge. Written in a particular form, these constraints naturally lead us to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bashir , A. Raya

Considering a self-interaction only of mirror fermions in the context of a lattice-regularized fermion field theory, we show that the system undergoes spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry and mirror-fermion masses are generated. However,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-25 She-Sheng Xue

Non-perturbative effect of the formation of a chiral symmetry breaking condensate <\bar\psi\psi> and of a dynamically generated fermion mass in QED in the presence of an external magnetic field is considered. The dynamical mass of a fermion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Gusynin

We investigate a proposal for the construction of models with chiral fermions on the lattice using staggered fermions. In this approach the gauge invariance is broken by the coupling of the staggered fermions to the gauge fields. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Wolfgang Bock , Jan Smit , Jeroen C. Vink

Characteristic features of dynamical symmetry breaking are investigated in Randall-Sundrum (RS) background. To study the influence of bulk fermion or bulk gauge field I consider a five-dimensional four-fermion interaction model and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomohiro Inagaki

We investigate the chiral dynamics of gauge theories developing an infrared stable fixed point. We determine the dependence of the bilinear fermion condensate on the underlying fermion mass and its anomalous dimension. We introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Francesco Sannino