Published September 5, 1975
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Journal article
Charge shielding and quark confinement in the massive Schwinger model
Creators
- 1. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Description
The Schwinger model is quantum electrodynamics with massless fermions in two dimensions. It is known that the asymptotic states of the theory contain no states corresponding to free fermions (''quark trapping'') and that local charge conservation is spontaneously broken (''Higgs phenomenon''). We investigate to what extent these phenomena persist when the fermion is given a bare mass. We find quark trapping but no Higgs phenomenon. The second of these results is dependent on mass perturbation theory; the first is not
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Annals of Physics
- Journal Volume
- 93
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Series
- Ann. Phys. (N.Y.).
- Journal Page Range
- 267-275
- ISSN
- 0003-4916
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- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 7249603
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- C INVARIANCE; CONFINEMENT; FERMIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MASS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; QUARK MODEL; QUARKS; SCHWINGER-TOMONAGA FORMALISM
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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