Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1992-12-16
Phys.Rev. D48 (1993) 2865-2876
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages LaTeX, 4 figures available on request
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.48.2865
Within the framework of the path-integral formalism we reinvestigate the different methods of removing the unphysical degrees of freedom from spontanously broken gauge theories. These are: construction of the unitary gauge by gauge fixing; \rx -limiting procedure; decoupling of the unphysical fields by point transformations. In the unitary gauge there exists an extra quartic divergent Higgs self-interaction term, which cannot be neglected if perturbative calculations are performed in this gauge. Using the St\"uckelberg formalism this procedure can be reversed, i.~e., a gauge theory can be reconstructed from its unitary gauge. We also discuss the equivalence of effective-Lagrangian theories, containing arbitrary interactions, to (nonlinearly realized) spontanously broken gauge theories and we show how they can be extended to Higgs models.
Grosse-Knetter Carsten
Koegerler Reinhart
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