Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model: A Non-Perturbative Outlook (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore, 19) - Softcover

Strocchi, Franco

 
9788876426599: Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model: A Non-Perturbative Outlook (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore, 19)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8876426590 ISBN 13: 9788876426599
Publisher: Edizioni della Normale, 2019

Synopsis

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 related

global 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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About the Author

Franco Strocchi is Senior Research Fellow of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Research) in Pisa, Italy.

From the Back Cover

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 related

global gauge symmetry. The solution of the U(1) problem and the vacuum structure in QCD are obtained without recourse to the problematic semiclassical instanton approximation, by rather exploiting the topology of the gauge group.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Edizioni della Normale
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8876426590
ISBN 13 
9788876426599
Binding
Paperback