Practical corollaries of transverse Ward-Green-Takahashi identities

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.04.034MaRDI QIDQ2257175zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts, Yu-Xin Liu, Sebastian M. Schmidt

Publication date 24 February 2015

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3276

zbMATH Keywords

Dyson-Schwinger equationsquantum electrodynamicsdynamical chiral symmetry breakingFermion-gauge-boson vertex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: The gauge principle is fundamental in formulating the Standard Model. Fermion--gauge-boson couplings are the inescapable consequence and the primary determining factor for observable phenomena. Vertices describing such couplings are simple in perturbation theory and yet the existence of strong-interaction bound-states guarantees that many phenomena within the Model are nonperturbative. It is therefore crucial to understand how dynamics dresses the vertices and thereby fundamentally alters the appearance of fermion--gauge-boson interactions. We consider the coupling of a dressed-fermion to an Abelian gauge boson, and describe a unified treatment and solution of the familiar longitudinal Ward-Green-Takahashi identity and its less well known transverse counterparts. Novel consequences for the dressed-fermion--gauge-boson vertex are exposed.

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