Published February 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Composite boson dominance in relativistic field theories

  • 1. Universita degli Studi di Milano - Dip. di Fisica and INFN, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan (Italy)
  • 2. Universidad de Zaragoza - Depto. de Fisica, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza (Spain)
  • 3. INFN, Laboratori Nazioni Frascati, P.O. Box 13, I-00044 Frascati (Italy)

Description

We apply a new bosonization technique to relativistic field theories of fermions whose partition function is dominated by bosonic composites, and derive the effective action for these bosons. The derivation respects all symmetries, including gauge invariance, with the exception of Euclidean invariance which must be checked a posteriori. We use a lattice regularization which should make applications to gauge theories easier. We test the method on a fermion field theory with quartic interaction in the limit of large number of flavours Nf, and show that it reproduces the exact results in the bosonic sector, namely condensation of a composite boson with the right mass which breaks the discrete chiral invariance of the model. Moreover we determine the structure function of the condensed composite, whose spatial part turns out to be identical to that of the Cooper pairs of the BCS model of superconductivity

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2
Journal Issue
2007
Journal Page Range
p. 034
ISSN
1126-6708