Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Spontaneous symmetry breaking of the light-front Gross-Neveu model is studied in the framework of the discretized light-cone quantization. Introducing a scalar auxiliary field and adding its kinetic term, we obtain a constraint on the longitudinal zero mode of the scalar field. This zero-mode constraint is solved by using the 1/N expansion. In the leading order, we find a nontrivial solution which gives the fermion nonzero mass and thus breaks the discrete symmetry of the model. It is essential for obtaining the nontrivial solution to treat adequately an infrared divergence which appears in the continuum limit. We also discuss the constituent picture of the model. The Fock vacuum is trivial and an eigenstate of the light-cone Hamiltonian. In the large N limit, the Hamiltonian consists of the kinetic term of the fermion with dressed mass and the interaction term of these fermions.
Source: Progress of Theoretical Physics
DOI: 10.1143/ptp.97.635
Authors: K. Itakura, S. Maedan
Institution: The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1987199525