HIGGS MECHANISM IN A LIGHT FRONT FORMULATION
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DOI10.1142/S0217732308026510zbMATH Open1151.81414arXivhep-th/0610048OpenAlexW3100376119MaRDI QIDQ3529007FDOQ3529007
Authors: L'ubomír Martinovič, Pierre Grangé 
Publication date: 17 October 2008
Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610048
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