Magnetic Charge as a ``Hidden'' Gauge Symmetry
| dc.creator | Singleton, Douglas | |
| dc.date | 1997-01-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:23:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:23:02Z | |
| dc.description | A theory containing both electric and magnetic charges is formulated using two vector potentials, $A_μ$ and $C_μ$. This has the aesthetic advantage of treating electric and magnetic charges both as gauge charges, but it has the experimental disadvantage of introducing a second massless gauge boson (the ``magnetic'' photon) which is not observed. This problem is dealt with by using the Higgs mechanism to give a mass to one of the gauge bosons while the other remains massless. This effectively ``hides'' the magnetic charge, and the symmetry associated with it, when one is at an energy scale far enough removed from the scale of the symmetry breaking. | |
| dc.description | 13 pages LaTeX | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701044 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701044 | |
| dc.identifier | Int.J.Theor.Phys. 34 (1995) 37-46 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/54872 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Magnetic Charge as a ``Hidden'' Gauge Symmetry | |
| dc.type | text |