Dilaton and chiral-symmetry breaking
Abstract
The spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in certain gauge models may also imply the spontaneous breaking of an approximate scale symmetry. This breaking will produce the dilaton as a pseudo-Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken scale invariance.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1230
- Bibcode:
- 1986PhRvL..56.1230B
- Keywords:
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- 11.30.Qc;
- 11.30.Rd;
- 12.50.Lr;
- Spontaneous and radiative symmetry breaking;
- Chiral symmetries