Chiral asymmetry from a 5D Higgs mechanism

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/037zbMATH Open1245.81107arXiv0707.2455OpenAlexW2025241554MaRDI QIDQ445733FDOQ445733

M. Shaposhnikov, A. Salvio

Publication date: 26 August 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An intriguing feature of the Standard Model is that the representations of the unbroken gauge symmetries are vector-like whereas those of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries are chiral. Here we provide a toy model which shows that a natural explanation of this property could emerge in higher dimensional field theories and discuss the difficulties that arise in the attempt to construct a realistic theory. An interesting aspect of this type of models is that the 4D low energy effective theory is not generically gauge invariant. However, the non-invariant contributions to the observable quantities are very small, of the order of the square of the ratio between the light particle mass scale and the Kaluza-Klein mass scale. Remarkably, when we take the unbroken limit both the chiral asymmetry and the non-invariant terms disappear.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2455

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zbMATH Keywords

5D Higgs mechanismchiral asymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Localization of spinor fields in higher-dimensional braneworlds
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