Weyl invariant standard model and its symmetry breaking

DOI10.1142/S0219887813500229zbMATH Open1286.81169arXiv1107.1602OpenAlexW2099436888MaRDI QIDQ2845338FDOQ2845338

Authors: Wolfgang Drechsler 

Publication date: 22 August 2013

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A standard model is formulated in a Weyl space, $W_4$, yielding a Weyl covariant dynamics of massless chiral Dirac fermion fields for leptons and quarks as well as the gauge fields involved for the groups D(1),(Weyl), $U(1{)}_{Y}imesSU(2{)}_W$,(electroweak), $SU(3{)}_c$,(colour), SO(3,1),(gravity) and SO(4,1),(strong interaction, symmetry breaking). The dynamics is based on a gauge and Weyl invariant Lagrangean density $calL$. Gravitation is included from the beginning as the gauge aspect of the Lorentz group which is here extended in the hadronic sector of the model to the ten parameter SO(4,1) de Sitter group. A part of the dynamics is, as usual, a scalar isospinor field $phi$ being a section on a bundle related to the electroweak gauge group and to symmetry breaking. In parallel to $phi$ on the leptonic side a section $ildex{i}^a$ on the hadronic side is considered as part of the dynamics, governing the symmetry breaking $SO(4,1)longrightarrowSO(3,1)$ and recovering gravitation in the symmetry breaking limit outside the regions in space-time where strong interactions persist. Besides spin, isospin and helicity the Weyl weights determine the form of the contributions of fields in $calL$. Of particular interest is the appearance of a current-current self-interaction of quark fields allowed by the Weyl weight changing the debate about quark masses. In a second step the D(1)-Weyl symmetry is explicitly broken and a universal mass scale is established through the mass of the $phi$-field appearing in the symmetry breaking Lagrangean ${calL}_B$. The Weyl symmetry breaking is governed by the relation $D_{m}uPh{i}^2=0$, where $Phi$ is the norm of $phi$. After D(1) symmetry breaking the masses of the weak bosons and of the electron appear on the scene through the energy-momentum tensor of the $phi$-field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1602

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryWeyl geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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