Lorentz Violation and the Higgs Mechanism
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-05-21 v2
Abstract
We consider scalar quantum electrodynamics in the Higgs phase and in the presence of Lorentz violation. Spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry gives rise to Lorentz-violating gauge field mass terms. These may cause the longitudinal mode of the gauge field to propagate superluminally. The theory may be quantized by the Faddeev-Popov procedure, although the Lagrangian for the ghost fields also needs to be Lorentz violating.
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@article{arxiv.1202.5993,
title = {Lorentz Violation and the Higgs Mechanism},
author = {Brett Altschul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5993},
year = {2013}
}
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15 pages