Published August 15, 1991 | Version v1
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New way of gauging self-dual bosons

Creators

  • 1. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Block AF, Bidhannagar, Calcutta, 700064 (India)

Description

A new two-dimensional model of self-dual bosons interacting chirally with gauge fields is presented. In this anomalous gauge theory, the photon acquires a mass by swallowing a self-dual boson (i.e., a chiral fermion) which gets confined as in the Schwinger model

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1332-1334
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22087576
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; DUALITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FERMIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HAMILTONIANS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MASS; PHASE SPACE; PHOTONS
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPACE