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Publications and source records attributed to Szymon Cedrowski.
We investigate the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking and show that, before symmetry breaking, the interaction of Higgs fields with massless gauge fields leads to the production of particles with negative squared mass.
Three major misconceptions concerning quantized tachyon fields: the energy spectrum unbounded from below, the frame-dependent and unstable vacuum state, and the non-covariant commutation rules, are shown to be a result of misrepresenting the Lorentz group in a too small Hilbert space. By doubling this space we establish an explicitly covariant framework that allows for the proper quantization of the tachyon fields eliminating all of these issues. Our scheme that is derived to maintain the relativistic covariance also singles out the two-state formalism developed by Aharonov et al. [1] as a preferred interpretation of the quantum theory.