Chiral gauge theories on the lattice and restoration of gauge symmetry

Abstract

We investigate a proposal for the construction of models with chiral fermions on the lattice using staggered fermions. In this approach the gauge invariance is broken by the coupling of the staggered fermions to the gauge fields. We aim at a dynamical restoration of the gauge invariance in the full quantum model. If the gauge symmetry breaking (SB) is not too severe, this procedure could lead in the continuum limit to the desired gauge invariant chiral gauge theory.

Comments: 3 pages, 2 postscript files appended (uuencoded), contribution to Lattice'93, ITFA 93-32, UCSD/PTH 93-36