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

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Matsuki , M. Shiotani

We investigate theories of Nambu-Goldstone bosons where the spontaneously broken continuous symmetry is non-invertible. In such theories, the vacua generically parameterize an orbifold. We study in detail the simplest example of a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Riccardo Argurio , Soumyadeep Chaudhuri

In this paper, we discuss the construction of Effective Field Theories (EFTs) in which a chiral fermion, charged under both gauge and global symmetries, is integrated out. Inspired by typical axion models, these symmetries can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Jérémie Quevillon , Christopher Smith , Pham Ngoc Hoa Vuong

The particle spectrum of all Majorana neutrino mass models with spontaneous violation of global lepton number include a Goldstone boson, the so-called majoron. The presence of this massless pseudoscalar changes the phenomenology…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Antonio Herrero-Brocal , Avelino Vicente

It is shown that a Nambu-Goldstone (NG) field may be coherently produced by a large number of particles in spite of the fact that the NG bosons do not couple to flavor conserving scalar densities like $\bar{\psi}\psi$. If a flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis Bento , Zurab Berezhiani

Realizing Majorana modes in topological superconductors, i.e., the condensed-matter counterpart of Majorana fermions in particle physics, may lead to a major advance in the field of topologically-protected quantum computation. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

The nonlinear realization of the superconformal symmetry in two dimensions is considered. The superconformal symmetry is realized by means of dimension $-1/2$\ Nambu-Goldstone fermion $\xi$\ and its dimension 3/2 conjugate $\eta$. A matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Hiroshi Kunitomo

We study the effects of an anomalous Z' boson on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g-2), and especially the impact of its axial coupling. We mainly evaluate the negative contribution to (g-2) of such couplings at one-loop and look…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Pascal Anastasopoulos , Kunio Kaneta , Elias Kiritsis , Yann Mambrini

When axionic strings carry a global charge, domain walls bounded by such strings may not be allowed to decay completely. This happens in particular in some models where a composite axion-like particle is the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-14 Francesco Bigazzi , Aldo L. Cotrone , Andrea Olzi

We discuss some general aspects of renormalization group flows in four dimensions. Every such flow can be reinterpreted in terms of a spontaneously broken conformal symmetry. We analyze in detail the consequences of trace anomalies for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Zohar Komargodski , Adam Schwimmer

In a one-generation fermion condensate scheme of electroweak symmetry breaking, it is proven based on Schwinger-Dyson equation in the real-time thermal field theory in the fermion bubble diagram approximation that, at finite temperature $T$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Bang-Rong Zhou

We discuss the problem of constructing models containing an axion and axion-like particles, motivated by astrophysical observations, with decay constants at the intermediate scale ranging from $10^9$GeV to $10^{13}$GeV. We present examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-30 Alex G. Dias

After imposing current conservation together with the Gauss law as initial conditions on the Abelian Nambu model, we prove that the resulting theory is equivalent to standard QED in the non-linear gauge $\left(A_{\mu }A^{\mu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 C. A. Escobar , L. F. Urrutia

We assign the chiral fermion fields of the Standard model to triplets of flavor (family, generation, horizontal) $SU(3)_f$ symmetry, for anomaly freedom add one triplet of sterile right-handed neutrino fields, and gauge that symmetry. First…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-01 Jiri Hosek

Based on considerations of quantum gravity, global symmetries which lead to axions as pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons after low scale symmetry breaking cannot be exact at the Planck scale. Here, we show that Planck-suppressed terms which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 Robert Brandenberger

Using the effective Lagrangian approach, we clarify general issues about Nambu-Goldstone bosons without Lorentz invariance. We show how to count their number and study their dispersion relations. Their number is less than the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-12 Haruki Watanabe , Hitoshi Murayama

Axion models generically suffer from a severe quality problem when coupled to gravity. In this article we provide a very simple model with a high quality axion. The axion is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of the baryon number symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-10 Prateek Agrawal , Anson Hook , Vazha Loladze , Mario Reig

We discuss excitations in nonrelativistic field theories with spontaneous breaking of a continuous global symmetry. It is known that in such systems there are two types of Goldstone bosons (Type A and Type B) whose dispersion law is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-06 Anton Kapustin

Some time ago it was claimed in "Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and Cosmological Domain Wall Problem" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 151301 (2019)) that non perturbative instantons of the weak interaction $\text{SU}(2)_\text{W}$ lead to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Maximilian Berbig

Baryon number is an accidental symmetry in the standard model, while Peccei-Quinn symmetry is hypothetical symmetry which is introduced to solve the strong CP problem. We study the possible connections between Peccei-Quinn symmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Takahiro Ohata , Kengo Takeuchi , Koji Tsumura