Volume 511, Issue 5 pp. 389-404
Original Paper

Perturbative gauge invariance: electroweak theory II

Andreas Aste

Andreas Aste

Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstraße 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland

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Günter Schaf

Günter Schaf

Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstraße 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland

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Michael Dütsch

Michael Dütsch

II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany

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First published: 21 June 1999
Citations: 3

Abstract

A recent construction of the electroweak theory, based on perturbative quantum gauge invariance alone, is extended to the case of more generations of fermions with arbitrary mixing. The conditions implied by second order gauge invariance lead to an isolated solution for the fermionic couplings in agreement with the standard model. Third order gauge invariance determines the Higgs potential. The resulting massive gauge theory is manifestly gauge invariant, after construction.

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