
Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model
A Non-Perturbative Outlook
Franco Strocchi(Author)
Scuola Normale Superiore (Publisher)
Published on 3. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-88-7642-659-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2019 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Pisa
Switzerland
Publishing group
Birkhauser Verlag AG
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Approx. 120 p.
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-7642-659-9 (9788876426599)
DOI
10.1007/978-88-7642-660-5
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E-Book
07/2019
Edizioni Della Normale
€21.39
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Person
Franco Strocchi is Senior Research Fellow of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Research) in Pisa, Italy.
Content
Spontaneous symmetry breaking.- Goldstone theorem. Breaking gauge symmetries.- Higgs mechanism.- U(1) problem in QCD; a solution without instantons.- Gauge group topology and $\theta$ vacuum structure.