Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model A Non-Perturbative Outlook /

• Main Author: Strocchi, Franco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Pisa : Scuola Normale Superiore : Imprint: Edizioni della Normale, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore) ; 19
• Subjects: Mathematical physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Mathematical Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

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 Higg...

Table of Contents:

• Spontaneous symmetry breaking
• Goldstone theorem. Breaking gauge symmetries
• Higgs mechanism
• U(1) problem in QCD; a solution without instantons
• Gauge group topology and $\theta$ vacuum structure.