Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model
A Non-Perturbative Outlook
Authors: Strocchi, Franco
Free Preview- Provides a non-perturbative approach to the symmetry breaking in the standard model
- Clarifies the empirical meaning of global and local gauge symmetries
- Reproduces a series of lectures given at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) in 2017/2018
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- About this Textbook
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The book provides a non-perturbative approach to the symmetry breaking in the standard model, in this way avoiding the critical issues which affect the standard presentations. The debated empirical meaning of global and local gauge symmetries is clarified. The absence of Goldstone bosons in the Higgs mechanism is non-perturbatively explained by the validity of Gauss laws obeyed by the currents which generate the relatedglobal gauge symmetry. The solution of the U(1) problem and the vacuum structure in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are obtained without recourse to the problematic semiclassical instanton approximation, by rather exploiting the topology of the gauge group.
- About the authors
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Franco Strocchi is Senior Research Fellow of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Research) in Pisa, Italy.
- Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Pages 1-23
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Breaking gauge symmetries. Higgs mechanism
Pages 25-66
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The U(1) problem in QCD
Pages 67-99
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model
- Book Subtitle
- A Non-Perturbative Outlook
- Authors
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- Franco Strocchi
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Series Volume
- 19
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Edizioni della Normale
- Copyright Holder
- Edizioni della Normale
- eBook ISBN
- 978-88-7642-660-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-88-7642-660-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-88-7642-659-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Topics
