Spontaneous symmetry breaking and principal fibre bundles (Q1082628)
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking and principal fibre bundles (English)
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1986
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Under the unique physical existence assumption for an interacting vacuum, a global geometrical construction is given for the Higgs mechanism in the case of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a general compact symmetry group. The mass matrix for the resulting massive gauge bosons is exhibited.
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Higgs mechanism
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spontaneous symmetry breaking
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gauge bosons
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