Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons
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- Phys.Rev.Lett. 13 (1964) 321-323
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Abstract:
It is of interest to inquire whether gauge vector mesons acquire mass through interaction; by a gauge vector meson we mean a Yang-Mills field associated with the extension of a Lie group from global to local symmetry. The importance of this problem resides in the possibility that strong-interaction physics originates from massive gauge fields related to a system of conserved currents. In this note, we shall show that in certain cases vector mesons do indeed acquire mass when the vacuum is degenerate with respect to a compact Lie group.- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
- VECTOR MESON: MASS
- MASS: VECTOR MESON
- SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
- FIELD THEORY: GOLDSTONE THEOREM
- SYMMETRY: CHIRAL
- GROUP THEORY: LIE
- FIELD THEORY: VACUUM POLARIZATION
- VACUUM POLARIZATION: FIELD THEORY
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