Is the Graviton a Goldstone Boson?
- 24 June 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 146 (4) , 966-973
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.146.966
Abstract
A theory is outlined in which Lorentz invariance is spontaneously violated, giving rise to a constant vector field . The two quantities which are most simply related to are the gravitational constant and the decay rate of , assuming that the latter will eventually show an energy dependence. Using a method suggested by Bjorken for electrodynamics, we conclude that the model may support a graviton, and determine the order of magnitude of . A simple argument relates the decay to ; the agreement with experiment is good.
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