Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-12-13
Phys.Rev.D77:055020,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages 2 figures, a few comments and 4 references added. To appear in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.055020
We consider a U(1) gauge theory, minimally coupled to a massless Dirac field, where a higher-derivative term is added to the pure gauge sector, as in the Lee-Wick models. We find that this term can trigger chiral symmetry breaking at low energy in the weak coupling regime. Then, the fermion field acquires a mass that turns out to be a function of both the energy scale associated to the higher-derivative term and the gauge coupling. The dependence of the fermion mass on the gauge coupling is non-perturbative. Extensions to SU(N) gauge theories and fermion-scalar interactions are also analyzed, as well as to theories with massive gauge fields. A few implications of these results in the framework of quark-mass generation are discussed.
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