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REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS

Renormalizable models of the electromagnetic and weak interactions

A. I. Vainshtein, I. B. Khriplovich

Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of USSR, Novosibirsk

Abstract: This review examines the renormalizability of various theories of vector fields. A discussion is given of how renormalizable theories in which the mass of a vector field arises from spontaneous symmetry breaking are used to construct models of the weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions. Certain specific schemes and the experimental bounds on the parameters of these schemes are analyzed.

UDC: 539.12.01

PACS: 11.10.Gh, 11.30.Qc, 13.40.Ks, 13.66.-a

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0112.197404d.0685

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1974, 17:2, 263–275