from Part II - Construction of The Standard Model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2025
The Higgs mechanism is introduced, first for scalar QED and then with the Higgs doublet, which takes us to the gauge bosons in the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Next we discuss variants of “spontaneous symmetry breaking” patterns, which deviate from the Standard Model, in the continuum and on the lattice. Finally we consider a “small unification” of the electroweak gauge couplings, as a toy model for the concept of Grand Unified Theories (to be address in Chapter 26).
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