The theory of local mass dimension one fermions of spin one half (Q1695140)
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The theory of local mass dimension one fermions of spin one half (English)
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7 February 2018
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In the present paper, the author discusses the troubling features encountered in an earlier paper where an unexpected theoretical discovery of spin one-half fermions with mass dimension one was presented and traces the origin of of these issues to a hidden freedom in the definition of duals of spinors and the associated field adjoints. In the process, for the first time, a quantum theory of spin one-half fermions that is free from all the mentioned issues is provided. The interactions of the new fermions are restricted to dimension-four quartic self-interaction, and also to a dimension-four coupling with the Higgs. A generalised Yukawa coupling of the new fermions with neutrinos provides a hitherto unsuspected source of lepton-number violation. The new fermions thus present a first-principle dark matter partner to Dirac fermions of the standard model of high energy physics with contrasting mass dimensions -- that of three halves for the latter versus one of the former without mutating the statistics from fermionic to bosonic.
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Elko
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dark matter
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Clifford algebras
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mass dimension one fermions
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charge conjugation
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