Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1992-03-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, 2 figures (not included)
Scientific paper
Recently, calculations which consider the implications of anomalous trilinear gauge-boson couplings, both at tree-level and in loop-induced processes, have been criticized on the grounds that the lagrangians employed are not \gwk gauge invariant. We prove that, in fact, the general Lorentz-invariant and $U(1)_\em$ invariant but {\it not} $SU_L(2)\times U_Y(1)$ invariant action is equivalent to the general lagrangian in which $SU_L(2)\times U_Y(1)$ appears but is nonlinearly realized. We demonstrate this equivalence in an explicit calculation, and show how it is reconciled with loop calculations in which the different formulations can (superficially) appear to give different answers. In this sense any effective theory containing light spin-one particles is seen to be automatically gauge invariant.
Burgess Cliff P.
London David
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