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We investigate dynamical symmetry breaking in a class of chiral gauge theories containing the Georgi-Glashow model. These theories feature a gauge sector and two fermion species that transform in the two-index antisymmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Hao-Lin Li , Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez , Shahram Vatani , Ling-Xiao Xu

The Schwinger-Dyson equations in the ladder approximation for $2D$ induced gravity coupled to fermions on a flat background are obtained in conformal gauge. A numerical study of these equations shows the possiblity of chiral symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , A. Romeo , Yu. I. Shil'nov

We describe a (first, to the best of our knowledge) essentially soluble example of dynamical symmetry breaking phenomenon in a 3+1 dimensional gauge theory without fundamental scalar fields: QED in a constant magnetic field.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

In this paper a model incorporating chiral symmetry breaking and dynamical soft-wall AdS/QCD is established. The AdS/QCD background is introduced dynamically as suggested by Wayne de Paula etc al and chiral symmetry breaking is discussed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-17 Qi Wang , An Min Wang

An investigation of the Nambu-Jona-Lasino model with external constant electric and weak gravitational fields is carried out in three- and four- dimensional spacetimes. The effective potential of the composite bifermionic fields is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Elizalde , Yu. I. Shil'nov , V. V. Chitov

We propose a novel lattice calculation of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in QED model with 2+1 dimensional fermion brane. Considering the relativistic action with gauge symmetry we rigorously carry out path integral in Monte-Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-29 Eigo Shintani , Tetsuya Onogi

We investigate four-fermion interactions with $N$-component fermion in Einstein universe for arbitrary space-time dimensions ($2 \leq D<4$). It is found that the effective potential for composite operator $\overline{\psi}\psi$ is calculable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Ishikawa , T. Inagaki , T. Muta

It is shown that the chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken by a constant magnetic field in QED. The dynamical mass of fermions (energy gap in the fermion spectrum) is $m_{dyn}\simeq C\sqrt{eB}\exp\left[-\left(\pi/\alpha\right)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

We perform the renormalization group analysis on the dynamical symmetry breaking under strong external magnetic field, studied recently by Gusynin, Miransky and Shovkovy. We find that any attractive four-Fermi interaction becomes strong in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. K. Hong , Y. Kim , S. -J. Sin

We study total and partial supersymmetry breaking by freely acting orbifolds, or equivalently by Scherk-Schwarz compactifications, in type I string theory. In particular, we describe a four-dimensional chiral compactification with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 I. Antoniadis , G. D'Appollonio , E. Dudas , A. Sagnotti

The gauge independence of the dynamical fermion mass generated through chiral symmetry breaking in QED in a strong, constant external magnetic field is critically examined. We show that the bare vertex approximation, in which the vertex…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. N. Leung , S. -Y. Wang

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (D$\chi$SB) is studied within ($2+1$)-dimensional QED with $N$ four-component fermions. The leading and next-to-leading orders of the $1/N$ expansion are computed exactly. The analysis is carried out in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-15 A. V. Kotikov , S. Teber

We consider the binary fragmentation problem in which, at any breakup event, one of the daughter segments either survives with probability $p$ or disappears with probability $1\!-\!p$. It describes a stochastic dyadic Cantor set that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rakibur Rahman , Fahima Nowrin , M. Shahnoor Rahman , Jonathan A. D. Wattis , Md. Kamrul Hassan

We consider the 3-d Gross-Neveu model in the broken phase and construct a stable brane world by means of a domain wall and an anti-wall. Fermions of opposite chirality are localized on the walls and coupled through the 3-d bulk. At large…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Bietenholz , A. Gfeller , U. -J. Wiese

Based on the Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation, the fermion mass generation is further studied in the D(2<D<4)-dimensional Thirring model as a gauge theory previously proposed. By using a certain approximation to the kernel, we analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Sugiura

We study chiral symmetry breaking for fundamental charged fermions coupled electromagnetically to photons with the inclusion of four-fermion contact self-interaction term. We employ multiplicatively renormalizable models for the photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 F. Akram , A. Bashir , L. X. Gutierrez-Guerrero , B. Masud , J. Rodriguez-Quintero , C. Calcaneo-Roldan , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We study the domain of validity of a Schwinger-Dyson (SD) approach to non-equilibrium dynamics when there is broken symmetry. We perform exact numerical simulations of the one- and two-point functions of lambda phi^4 field theory in 1+1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Fred Cooper , John F. Dawson , Bogdan Mihaila

We study dynamical mass generation in QED in (2+1) dimensions using Hamiltonian lattice methods. We use staggered fermions, and perform simulations with explicit dynamical fermions in the chiral limit. We demonstrate that a recently…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Pieter Maris , Dean Lee

Previous analytical studies of quantum electrodynamics in $2+1$ dimensions (QED3) have shown the existence of a critical number of fermions for onset of chiral symmetry breaking, the most known being the value $N_c\approx3.28$ obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-13 V. P. Gusynin , P. K. Pyatkovskiy

Chiral symmetry of the 2-dimensional chiral Gross-Neveu model is broken explicitly by a bare mass term as well as a splitting of scalar and pseudo-scalar coupling constants. The vacuum and light hadrons - mesons and baryons which become…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Christian Boehmer , Michael Thies