Undoubled Chiral Fermions on a Lattice
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چکیده
We analyze the dynamics of an SUL(2)⊗UR(1) chiral theory on the lattice with a strong multifermion coupling. It is shown that no spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs; the “spectator” fermion ψR is a free mode; doublers are decoupled as massive Dirac fermions consistently with the chiral symmetries. In 1+1 dimension, we show that the right-handed three-fermion state disappears at the threshold and an undoubled left-handed chiral fermion remains in the continuum limit.
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