Spontaneous Breakdown of Parity as the Origin of Isospin Breaking
- 16 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (25) , 2756-2759
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.2756
Abstract
It is shown that spontaneous breakdown of parity within left-right-symmetric theories can be entirely responsible for generating a spontaneous breakdown of "isospin" symmetry leading to large up-down mass splitting within a family.Keywords
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