Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-06-21
Int.J.Mod.Phys.B14:1989-2010,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LATEX, 26 pages, 7 figs
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217979200001138
This article gives a review of the topic of regularising chiral gauge theories and is aimed at a general audience. It begins by clarifying the meaning of chirality and goes on to discussing chiral projections in field theory, parity violation and the distinction between vector and chiral field theories. It then discusses the standard model of electroweak interactions from the perspective of chirality. It also reviews at length the phenomenon of anomalies in quantum field theories including the intuitive understanding of anomalies based on the Dirac sea picture as given by Nielsen and Ninomiya. It then raises the issue of a non-perturbative and constructive definition of the standard model as well as the importance of such formulations. The second Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem about the impossibility of regularising chiral gauge theories under some general assumptions is also discussed. After a brief review of lattice regularisation of field theories, it discusses the issue of fermions on the lattice with special emphasis on the problem of species doubling. The implications of these problems to introducing chiral fermions on the lattice as well as the interpretations of anomalies within the lattice formulations and the lattice Dirac sea picture are then discussed. Finally the difficulties of formulating the standard model on the lattice are illustrated through detailed discussions of the Wilson-Yukawa method, the domain wall fermions method and the recently popular Ginsparg-Wilson method.
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