Fermi Interaction Caused by Intermediary Chiral Boson

Abstract

The Fermi interaction is interpreted as a nonlocal interaction resulting from a double Yukawa-type interaction in which the intervening boson has a definite chirality. The theory is quantizable and renormalizable, and in the "local" limit, the results agree with the usual ($V\ensuremath{-}A$) theory of the direct Fermi interaction. The general framework of the theory not only gives a basis for the existence of parity-nonconserving interactions, but also determines the allowed forms of such interactions. The nonlocal effect of the intervening boson propagator tends to give an improved agreement with experiments.