Sunday, 15 February 2015

standard model - Electroweak interaction: From W1mu,W2mu,W3mu,Bmu to Wpm,Zmu,Amu


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)YU(1),


and inserting the vacuum expecation value, I got the following Lagrangian (just the dynamical part):



12DμϕDμϕ=12μσμσ+(v+σ)28(g2W1μW1μ+g2W2μW2μ+(gW3μgBμ)(gW3μgBμ)).

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)(g2ggggg2)(W3μBμ)
The diagonlized matrix reads MD=(000g2+g2)
and does not give the right linear combinations of Zμ and Aμ, which are given in my literature as Aμ=gW3μ+gBμg2+g2,Zμ=gW3μgBμg2+g2
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=PMDP1 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+gBμ00gW3μ+gBμ)


again, cheers!



Answer



You have noticed already that Lmass[g2(W1μW1μ+W2μW2μ)+(gW3μgBμ)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 (gW3μgBμ) and the proportionality constant 1/g2+g2 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+g2)(gW3μgBμ)2g2+g2]=[g2(W1μW1μ+W2μW2μ)+(g2+g2)Z2μ]
where you see that gg2+g2=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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