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Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model

A Non-Perturbative Outlook

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore (PSNS, volume 19)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore) (LNSNS)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Spontaneous symmetry breaking

    • Franco Strocchi
    Pages 1-23
  3. Breaking gauge symmetries. Higgs mechanism

    • Franco Strocchi
    Pages 25-66
  4. The U(1) problem in QCD

    • Franco Strocchi
    Pages 67-99
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 101-109

About this book

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 author

Franco Strocchi is Senior Research Fellow of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Research) in Pisa, Italy.

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