1994/07/05 by D. Caenepeel, Didier Caenepeel, M. LeBlanc +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9407029
6 pages, talk given by D.C. at the MRST-94 Conference "What Next? Exploring the Future of High-Energy Physics", McGill University, Montreal, Canada, may 1994, UdeM-LPN-TH-94-201
arxiv created 1994/07/05 · openalex publication_date 1994/07/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present an alternative to the Higgs mechanism to generate masses for non-abelian gauge fields in (3+1)-dimensions. The initial Lagrangian is composed of a fermion with current-current and dipole-dipole type self-interactions minimally coupled to non-abelian gauge fields. The mass generation occurs upon the fermionic functional integration. We show that by fine-tuning the coupling constants the effective theory contains massive non-abelian gauge fields without any residual scalars or other degrees of freedom.