2014/08/27 by Srijit Bhattacharjee, Bhattacharjee, Srijit
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.6519
17 pages; Typos corrected. Minor modification in text and new references added
openalex publication_date 2014/08/27 · arxiv created 2014/09/10 · arxiv updated 2014/09/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Standard Model of electroweak interactions has been recast as a gauge free theory where the fields present in the Lagrangian are made inert under SU(2)L × U(1)Y gauge transformations. Furthermore, the residual U(1)em gauge freedom of the dynamical fields are also removed to yield a completely gauge free theory. This formulation thus in turn resolves the issue of gauge dependency of the Standard Model effective potential which plays significant role in determining the instability scale of the electroweak vacuum.