Nakanishi-Lautrup field (changes) in nLab
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Context
Fields and quanta
fields and particles in particle physics
and in the standard model of particle physics:
matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)
| flavors of fundamental fermions in the standard model of particle physics: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| generation of fermions | 1st generation | 2nd generation | 3d generation |
| quarks (qq) | |||
| up-type | up quark (uu) | charm quark (cc) | top quark (tt) |
| down-type | down quark (dd) | strange quark (ss) | bottom quark (bb) |
| leptons | |||
| charged | electron | muon | tauon |
| neutral | electron neutrino | muon neutrino | tau neutrino |
| bound states: | |||
| mesons | light mesons: pion (udu d) ρ-meson (udu d) ω-meson (udu d) f1-meson a1-meson | strange-mesons: ϕ-meson (ss¯s \bar s), kaon, K*-meson (usu s, dsd s) eta-meson (uu+dd+ssu u + d d + s s) charmed heavy mesons: | bottom heavy mesons: B-meson (qbq b) ϒ-meson (bb¯b \bar b) |
| baryons | nucleons: proton (uud)(u u d) neutron (udd)(u d d) |
(also: antiparticles)
hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)
minimally extended supersymmetric standard model
bosinos:
dark matter candidates
Exotica
Contents
Idea
In BV-BRST formalism, for gauge fixing Yang-Mills theory (to Lorenz gauge or similar) a contractible chain complex of auxiliary field bundles is introduced for two Lie algebra-valued fields, one in degree zero, called the Nakanishi-Lautrup field, usually denoted “BB” and one in degree -1, called the antighost field, usually denoted C¯\overline{C}. See at quantization of Yang-Mills theory.
Beware that there are also the antifields of the ghost fields, which technically are hence “anti-ghostfields” as opposed to the Nakanishi-Lautrup “antighost-fields”. Whoever is responsible for this bad terminology should be blamed.
References
Named after Benny Lautrup and some Noburo Nakanishi Nakanishi, who is sometimes misspelled as “Takanishi”.
- Noburo Nakanishi, Covariant quantization of the electromagnetic Field in the Landau Gauge, Prog. Theor. Phys. 35, 1111 (1966)
- Benny Lautrup, Canonical quantum electrodynamics in covariant gauges, Kong. Dan. Vid. Sel. Mat. Fys. Med. 35, 29 (1967)
Review for the case of electromagnetism and with path integral terminology is in
- Marc Henneaux, section 9.1 of Lectures on the Antifield-BRST formalism for gauge theories, Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement) 18A (1990) 47-106 (pdf)
while discussion for general Yang-Mills theory in the context of causal perturbation theory/perturbative algebraic quantum field theory is in
- Katarzyna Rejzner, section 7.2 of Perturbative Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Physics Studies, Springer 2016 (web)
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