Topological physics in the standard model and beyond Export

@misc{citeulike:1850579, abstract = {Topological interactions are an essential ingredient for building consistent low-energy theories of fermions, gauge fields and Nambu-Goldstone bosons in the absence of explicit UV completions, such as in Little Higgs models. These interactions are also a probe of UV completion physics that may be out of direct experimental reach. The technology of topological, or Wess-Zumino-Witten interactions is described, using explicit examples in the standard model and in Little Higgs models. The construction of a simple topological action on SU(3)/SU(2) is described. Inconsistencies in some popular Little Higgs models are pointed out.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Hill, Richard J.}, citeulike-article-id = {1850579}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5791}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.5791}, day = {31}, eprint = {0710.5791}, keywords = {eft}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2007-11-01 10:39:07}, priority = {3}, title = {Topological physics in the standard model and beyond}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5791}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1850579 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1850579 N2 - Topological interactions are an essential ingredient for building consistent low-energy theories of fermions, gauge fields and Nambu-Goldstone bosons in the absence of explicit UV completions, such as in Little Higgs models. These interactions are also a probe of UV completion physics that may be out of direct experimental reach. The technology of topological, or Wess-Zumino-Witten interactions is described, using explicit examples in the standard model and in Little Higgs models. The construction of a simple topological action on SU(3)/SU(2) is described. Inconsistencies in some popular Little Higgs models are pointed out. TI - Topological physics in the standard model and beyond KW - eft AU - Hill, Richard PY - 2007/Oct/31/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5791 ER -