Sunday, December 11, 2016

quantum field theory - Why is only the third component of weak isospin used as a conserved quantity?


Using Noether's theorem


0d3x(L(0Ψ)δΨ)=0


we get three conserved quantites Qi from global SU(2) symmetry, because the Lagrangian is invariant under infinitesimal transformations of the form δΨ=iaiσiΨ. The conserved quantities that follow from the free doublet Lagrangian L=iˉΨγμμΨ are therefore


Qi=iˉΨγ0σiΨ=(vee)γ0γ0=1σi(vee)


Why are the conserved quantities that follow from i=1 or i=2, never mentioned or used? For i=1 we have



Q1=(vee)σ1(vee)=(vee)(0110)(vee)=vee+eve


or for i=3 we have


Q3=(vee)σ3(vee)=(vee)(1001)(vee)=veveee


which is the usually used third component of weak isospin.




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