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Chiral-symmetry breaking in the two-dimensional Abelian Higgs model

Christian Besson

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We present a detailed study of chiral-symmetry breaking in the semiclassical approximation of the two-dimensional Abelian Higgs model with massless fermions. Emphasis is on examining the consistency of the dynamical symmetry-breaking mechanism with the requirements of gauge invariance.

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Key concepts: Physics, Higgs boson, Chiral symmetry breaking, Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Symmetry breaking, Abelian group, Higgs field, Higgs mechanism