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Weak isospin and types of weak charge
My understanding is that QCD has three color charges that are conserved as a result of global SU(3) invariance. What about SU(2) weak? Does it have two types of charges? What I'm getting at is:
U(1) ...
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Weak isospin confinement?
According to the Wikipedia article on color confinement:
The current theory is that confinement is due to the force-carrying gluons having color charge [...],
i.e. because the gauge group is ...
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What exactly is the weak portion of the SM gauge group?
This Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_symmetry states that the weak part of the SM gauge group is not $SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$ but $ \frac{ SU(2)_L \times ...
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Why are all observable gauge theories not vector-like?
Why are all observable gauge theories not vector-like?
Will this imply that the electron and/or fermions do not have mass?
How is this issue resolved?
Background:
The Standard Model is a ...
