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Dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Weinberg-Salam theory
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1979 · Vol. 20(10) · pp. 2619–2625
Leonard Susskind✉(Stanford University)
Abstract
We argue that the existence of fundamental scalar fields constitutes a serious flaw of the Weinberg-Salam theory. A possible scheme without such fields is described. The symmetry breaking is induced by a new strongly interacting sector whose natural scale is of the order of a few TeV.
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesPhysicsSymmetry breakingSpontaneous symmetry breakingExplicit symmetry breakingScalar (mathematics)Theoretical physicsChiral symmetry breakingGlobal symmetrySymmetry (geometry)Dynamics (music)
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