• the unitarity gauge or unitary gauge is a particular choice of a gauge fixing in a gauge theory with a spontaneous symmetry breaking. In this gauge, the...
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  • generalizations of or departures from unitarity are part of speculations about theories that may go beyond quantum mechanics. A unitarity bound is any inequality that...
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    of quantum field theory Standard Model (mathematical formulation) Unitarity gauge Weinberg angle Yang–Mills theory The particular number 246 GeV is taken...
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    involving Faddeev–Popov ghosts must be considered too (except in the unitarity gauge). Detailed computations with the above-mentioned Lagrangian show that...
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    – or as the absence of some gauge configurations. However, they are a necessary computational tool to preserve unitarity. The exact form or formulation...
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    essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes...
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    hidden within the shape of the potential, that is very important. In a unitarity gauge one can set ϕ + = 0 {\displaystyle \phi ^{+}=0} and make ϕ 0 {\displaystyle...
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  • {\displaystyle \varphi } and its derivative transform in the same way. By the unitarity of the representation, scalar products like ( φ , φ ) {\displaystyle (\varphi...
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    Axion model Effective action Minimal subtraction scheme Technicolor Unitarity gauge Spouse Louise Goldwasser ​ (m. 1954)​ Children 1 Awards Heineman Prize...
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    Amplituhedron (category Gauge theories)
    quantum mechanical properties of locality and unitarity. In amplituhedron theory, locality and unitarity arise as a direct consequence of positivity. They...
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  • to: Unitarity (physics), a restriction on any theory in physics that all probabilities must sum to one Unitary gauge, a particular choice of a gauge fixing...
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    twistor-space methods applied to gauge-theory amplitudes. Bern and colleagues developed the method of "generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop...
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    Grojean, C.; Pilo, L.; Terning, J.; Terning, John (2004). "Gauge theories on an interval: Unitarity without a Higgs". Physical Review D. 69 (5): 055006. arXiv:hep-ph/0305237...
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    Becchi, C.; Rouet, A.; Stora, R. (1974). "The abelian Higgs Kibble model, unitarity of the S-operator". Physics Letters B. 52 (3). Elsevier BV: 344–346. Bibcode:1974PhLB...
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  • Poisson's equation Unit commensurability Unit of length Unitarity (physics) Unitarity bound Unitarity gauge Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel United States Air Force...
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    of these objects violated a fundamental property of quantum mechanics, unitarity. ’t Hooft refused to accept this problem, known as the black hole information...
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  • Grojean, C.; Murayama, H.; Pilo, L.; Terning, John (2004), "Gauge theories on an interval: Unitarity without a Higgs", Physical Review D, 69 (5): 055006, arXiv:hep-ph/0305237...
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    ghost field, ghost particle, or gauge ghost is an unphysical state in a gauge theory. Ghosts are necessary to keep gauge invariance in theories where the...
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  • usually referred to as unitarity of time evolution. The apparent contradiction between Hawking's calculation and the unitarity postulate of quantum mechanics...
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    {\displaystyle \,V_{ij}\,} denote the corresponding CKM matrix coefficients. Unitarity of the CKM matrix implies that   | V ud | 2 + | V us | 2 + | V ub | 2...
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  • Grojean, C.; Pilo, L.; Terning, J.; Terning, John (2004), "Gauge theories on an interval: Unitarity without a Higgs", Physical Review D, 69 (5): 055006, arXiv:hep-ph/0305237...
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  • field theories, unitarity is equivalent to reflection positivity of correlation functions: one of the Osterwalder-Schrader axioms. Unitarity implies that...
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  • usually referred to as unitarity of time evolution. The apparent contradiction between Hawking's calculation and the unitarity postulate of quantum mechanics...
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  • 10.1823. ISSN 0556-2821. D'Hoker, Eric; Giddings, Steven B. (1987). "Unitarity of the closed bosonic Polyakov string". Nuclear Physics B. 291. Elsevier...
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  • Becchi, C.; Rouet, A.; Stora, R. (1974). "The abelian Higgs Kibble model, unitarity of the S-operator". Physics Letters B. 52 (3): 344–346. Bibcode:1974PhLB...
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  • ISBN 978-3-319-06129-0. with Rouet, Stora: The Abelian Higgs-Kibble-Model. Unitarity of the S-Operator, Physics Letters B, Vol.52, 1974, pp. 344–346 doi:10...
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    called the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix (CKM matrix). Enforcing unitarity, the approximate magnitudes of the entries of the CKM matrix are: [ |...
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  • Mathematical Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. "The "Harder-Narasimhan Trace" and Unitarity of the KZ/Hitchin Connection: genus 0", Ann. of Math. 169, 1–39 (2009)...
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    than the Hamiltonian. Possible downsides of the approach include that unitarity (this is related to conservation of probability; the probabilities of...
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  • theory, there are no local quantities at all. Heisenberg proposed to use unitarity to determine the S-matrix. In all conceivable situations, the sum of the...
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