Spontaneously broken, local Z$_2$ symmetry and the anatomy of a lepton

dc.creatorHofmann, Ralf
dc.date2003-12-03
dc.date2004-02-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:51:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:51:28Z
dc.descriptionIn the framework of the gauge symmetry ${SU(2)}_{\tiny{CMB}}\times {SU(2)}_{\tiny{e}}\times {SU(2)}_{\tinyμ}\times {SU(2)}_{\tinyτ}$ we provide a microscopic argument why a spontaneously broken, local Z$_2$ symmetry surviving the 1$^{\tiny{st}}$ order phase transition to the confining phase of one of the SU(2) factors generates two stable spin-1/2 excitations of vastly different mass. A mixture of Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions with the former favored by a factor two over the latter is obtained by applying inequivalent, local-in-Euclidean-time Z$_2$ transformations to one and the same field configuration contained in the description of the center-vortex condensate.
dc.description4 pages, 2 figures, essential expansion of text and information content, 16 references added, title changed
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0312051
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0312051
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/43105
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleSpontaneously broken, local Z$_2$ symmetry and the anatomy of a lepton
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