Charge quantization in the CP(1) nonlinear -model

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.11.063MaRDI QIDQ1690744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simeon Hellerman, John Kehayias, Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Publication date 12 January 2018

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0692

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We investigate the consistency conditions for matter fields coupled to the four-dimensional ($calN=1$ supersymmetric) $mathbbCP(1)$ nonlinear sigma model (the coset space $SU(2{)}_G/U(1{)}_H$). We find that consistency requires that the $U(1{)}_H$ charge of the matter be quantized, in units of half of the $U(1{)}_H$ charge of the Nambu-Goldstone (NG) boson, if the matter has a nonsingular kinetic term and the dynamics respect the full group $SU(2{)}_G$. We can then take the linearly realized group $U(1{)}_H$ to comprise the weak hypercharge group $U(1{)}_Y$ of the Standard Model. Thus we have charge quantization without a Grand Unified Theory (GUT), completely avoiding problems like proton decay, doublet-triplet splitting, and magnetic monopoles. We briefly investigate the phenomenological implications of this model-building framework. The NG boson is fractionally charged and completely stable. It can be naturally light, avoiding constraints while being a component of dark matter or having applications in nuclear physics. We also comment on the extension to other NLSMs on coset spaces, which will be explored more fully in a followup paper.

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