Could only fermions be elementary?

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/9/016zbMATH Open1074.81596arXivhep-th/0210144OpenAlexW3098743411MaRDI QIDQ4465261FDOQ4465261

Authors: Felix M. Lev 

Publication date: 27 May 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In standard Poincare and anti de Sitter SO(2,3) invariant theories, antiparticles are related to negative energy solutions of covariant equations while independent positive energy unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) of the symmetry group are used for describing both a particle and its antiparticle. Such an approach cannot be applied in de Sitter SO(1,4) invariant theory. We argue that it would be more natural to require that (*) one UIR should describe a particle and its antiparticle simultaneously. This would automatically explain the existence of antiparticles and show that a particle and its antiparticle are different states of the same object. If (*) is adopted then among the above groups only the SO(1,4) one can be a candidate for constructing elementary particle theory. It is shown that UIRs of the SO(1,4) group can be interpreted in the framework of (*) and cannot be interpreted in the standard way. By quantizing such UIRs and requiring that the energy should be positive in the Poincare approximation, we conclude that i) elementary particles can be only fermions. It is also shown that ii) C invariance is not exact even in the free massive theory and iii) elementary particles cannot be neutral. This gives a natural explanation of the fact that all observed neutral states are bosons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210144

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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