How to Give Chiral Fermions a Mass
David Tong (University of Cambridge)
Abstract: Chiral fermions have the property that their left-handed and right-handed components transform differently under some symmetry. Folklore suggests that it is impossible to give such fermions a mass without breaking this symmetry. I'll show, through a number of examples, why this folklore is wrong. In particular, I'll show how one generation of fermions in the Standard Model can get a mass without the need for a Higgs boson that breaks electroweak symmetry.
condensed mattermathematical physics
Audience: researchers in the topic
Quantum Matter meets Maths (IST, Lisbon)
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