Higgs mechanism in a light front formulation

dc.creatorMartinovic, Lubomir
dc.creatorGrange, Pierre
dc.date2006-10-04
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dc.descriptionWe give a simple derivation of the Higgs mechanism in an abelian light front field theory. It is based on a finite volume quantization with antiperiodic scalar fields and a periodic gauge field. An infinite set of degenerate vacua in the form of coherent states of the scalar field that minimize the light front energy, is constructed. The corresponding effective Hamiltonian descibes a massive vector field whose third component is generated by the would-be Goldstone boson. This mechanism, understood here quantum mechanically in the form analogous to the space-like quantization, is derived without gauge fixing as well as in the unitary and the light cone gauge.
dc.description9 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610048
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610048
dc.identifierMod.Phys.Lett.A23:417-425,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1142/S0217732308026510
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196266
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleHiggs mechanism in a light front formulation
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