Chiral Schwinger models without gauge anomalies
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Description
We find a large class of quantum gauge models with massless fermions where the coupling to the gauge fields is not chirally symmetric and which nevertheless do not suffer from gauge anomalies. To be specific we study two dimensional Abelian models in the Hamiltonian framework which can be constructed and solved by standard techniques. The general model describes NP photon fields and NF flavors of Dirac fermions with 2NFNP different coupling constants, i.e., the chiral component of each fermion can be coupled to the gauge fields differently. We construct these models and find conditions so that no gauge anomaly appears. If these conditions hold it is possible to construct and solve the model explicitly, so that gauge- and Lorentz invariance are manifest
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Identifiers
- PII
- S0550321300004818;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 587
- Journal Issue
- 1-3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 568-584
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35027429
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CHIRALITY; COUPLING; COUPLING CONSTANTS; DIRAC OPERATORS; FERMIONS; FLAVOR MODEL; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HAMILTONIANS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCHWINGER SOURCE THEORY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.