Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Field theoretic models possessing a global internal fermionic shift symmetry are considered. When such a symmetry is realized locally, spin-3/2 fields appear naturally as gauge fields. Implementation of the gauging procedure requires not only the usual replacement of ordinary derivatives by covariant derivatives containing the spin-3/2 fields, but also the inclusion of additional monomials. The Higgs mechanism and the high energy Nambu–Goldstone fermion equivalence theorem are explicitly demonstrated.
Source: Modern Physics Letters A
Author: S. T. LOVE
Institution: Purdue University West Lafayette
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2067206175