HIGGS MECHANISM IN A LIGHT FRONT FORMULATION

DOI10.1142/S0217732308026510MaRDI QIDQ3529007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L'ubomír Martinovič, Pierre Grangé

Publication date 17 October 2008

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610048

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs mechanismDLCQlight front field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We give a simple derivation of the Higgs mechanism in an abelian light front field theory. It is based on a finite volume quantization with antiperiodic scalar fields and a periodic gauge field. An infinite set of degenerate vacua in the form of coherent states of the scalar field that minimize the light front energy, is constructed. The corresponding effective Hamiltonian descibes a massive vector field whose third component is generated by the would-be Goldstone boson. This mechanism, understood here quantum mechanically in the form analogous to the space-like quantization, is derived without gauge fixing as well as in the unitary and the light cone gauge.

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