The full electroweak interaction: an autonomous account

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Autores principales: Gracia-Bondía, José M., Rehren, Karl-Henning, Várilly, Joseph C.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Gracia-Bondía, José M.
Rehren, Karl-Henning
Várilly, Joseph C.
author_facet Gracia-Bondía, José M.
Rehren, Karl-Henning
Várilly, Joseph C.
contents The precise renormalizable interactions in the bosonic sector of electroweak theory are intrinsically determined in the autonomous approach to perturbation theory. This proceeds directly on the Hilbert-Fock space built on the Wigner unirreps of the physical particles, with their given masses: those of three massive vector bosons, a photon, and a massive scalar (the "higgs"). Neither "gauge choices" nor an unobservable "mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking" is invoked. Instead, to proceed on Hilbert space requires using string-localized fields to describe the vector bosons. In such a framework, the condition of string independence of the S-matrix yields consistency constraints on the coupling coefficients, the essentially unique outcome being the experimentally known one. The analysis can be largely carried out for other configurations of massive and massless vector bosons, paving the way towards consideration of consistent mass patterns beyond those of the electroweak theory.
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spellingShingle The full electroweak interaction: an autonomous account
Gracia-Bondía, José M.
Rehren, Karl-Henning
Várilly, Joseph C.
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
81V10, 81V25
The precise renormalizable interactions in the bosonic sector of electroweak theory are intrinsically determined in the autonomous approach to perturbation theory. This proceeds directly on the Hilbert-Fock space built on the Wigner unirreps of the physical particles, with their given masses: those of three massive vector bosons, a photon, and a massive scalar (the "higgs"). Neither "gauge choices" nor an unobservable "mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking" is invoked. Instead, to proceed on Hilbert space requires using string-localized fields to describe the vector bosons. In such a framework, the condition of string independence of the S-matrix yields consistency constraints on the coupling coefficients, the essentially unique outcome being the experimentally known one. The analysis can be largely carried out for other configurations of massive and massless vector bosons, paving the way towards consideration of consistent mass patterns beyond those of the electroweak theory.
title The full electroweak interaction: an autonomous account
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
81V10, 81V25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10668