EDIT: Additional question at the end
I am trying to illuminate how the "unphysical" gauge bosons W1μ,W2μ,W3μ,Bμ will be the "physical" W±,Zμ,Aμ when diagonalizing the mass matrix. Notice that it is in Euclidean time, so we do not have to care about the Lorentz indices. Furthermore σ(x) is the Higgs field and v is the vacuum expectation value.
After the symmetry breaking SU(2)L×U(1)Y→U(1),
and inserting the vacuum expecation value, I got the following Lagrangian (just the dynamical part):
12Dμϕ†Dμϕ=12∂μσ∂μσ+(v+σ)28(g2W1μW1μ+g2W2μW2μ+(gW3μ−g′Bμ)(gW3μ−g′Bμ)).
W±=W1μ±W2μ is clear, but retrieving
Zμ and
Aμ not. I tryied the following, since the last part of the Lagrangian can be written like:
(W3μ,Bμ)(g2−gg′−gg′g′2)(W3μBμ)
The diagonlized matrix reads
MD=(000g2+g′2)
and does not give the right linear combinations of
Zμ and
Aμ, which are given in my literature as
Aμ=g′W3μ+gBμ√g2+g′2,Zμ=gW3μ−g′Bμ√g2+g′2
My question is now, how to get these combinations, it looks like I am close, but only close. And the other question where comes the normalization conditions for the field from?
Cheers!
EDIT:
I finally found the linear combinations, mass eigenstates, like they are in the literature, by inserting not only the diagonlized mass matrix MD, but by inserting M=PMDP−1 As I was looking at the covariant derivative to find out how the fields couple to the Higgs doublet I was wondering how I could possibly turn the following matrix into mass eigenstates of the gauge fields:
i2(gW3μ+g′Bμ00gW3μ+g′Bμ)
again, cheers!
You have noticed already that Lmass∝[g2(W1μW1μ+W2μW2μ)+(gW3μ−g′Bμ)2]
with the kinetic terms for
Wiμ and
Bμ canonically normalized. Therefore the neutral linear combination of
W3μ and
Bμ that gets mass is proportional to
(gW3μ−g′Bμ) and the proportionality constant
1/√g2+g′2 fixed by the fact that you want keep the fields canonically normalized (that is, you are doing a rotation from
(Wμ,Bμ)T to
(Zμ,Aμ)T)
Lmass∝[g2(W1μW1μ+W2μW2μ)+(g2+g′2)(gW3μ−g′Bμ)2g2+g′2]=[g2(W1μW1μ+W2μW2μ)+(g2+g′2)Z2μ]
where you see that
g√g2+g′2=cosθW
and
m2Wm2Zcos2θW=1.
in agreement with the literature. Indeed, only the
Z-boson and
W± get masses, as the photon is massless: the neutrual combination that gets mass must be identified with
Z-boson
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