Spontaneous Breakdown of Muon-Number Conservation and Off-Diagonal Neutral Currents

16 May 1977

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 38 (20) , 1113-1116
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.1113

Abstract

We suggest that the conservation of muon number is associated with a local gauge principle and that small nonconservation effects develop from the spontaneous breakdown of the gauge symmetry. Experimental consequences of the scheme, stemming from the spontaneous genesis of off-diagonal neutral currents, are discussed in detail.

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