Coleman–Weinberg symmetry breaking inSU(8) induced by a third rank antisymmetric tensor scalar field II: the fermion spectrum

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA768FzbMATH Open1370.81201arXiv1606.07477OpenAlexW3102407821MaRDI QIDQ5348283FDOQ5348283

Authors: Stephen L. Adler 

Publication date: 15 August 2017

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

Abstract: We continue our study of Coleman-Weinberg symmetry breaking induced by a third rank antisymmetric tensor scalar, in the context of the $SU(8)$ model we proposed earlier. We focus in this paper on qualitative features that will determine whether the model can make contact with the observed particle spectrum. We discuss the mechanism for giving the spin $frac32$ field a mass by the BEH mechanism, and analyze the remaining massless spin $frac12$ fermions, the global chiral symmetries, and the running couplings after symmetry breaking. We note that the smallest gluon mass matrix eigenvalue has an eigenvector suggestive of $U(1{)}_{B-L}$, and conjecture that the theory runs to an infrared fixed point at which there is a massless gluon with 3 to -1 ratios in generator components. Assuming this, we discuss a mechanism for making contact with the standard model, based on a conjectured asymmetric breaking of $Sp(4)$ to $SU(2)$ subgroups, one of which is the electroweak $SU(2)$, and the other of which is a "technicolor" group that binds the original $SU(8)$ model fermions, which play the role of "preons", into composites. Quarks can emerge as 5 preon composites and leptons as 3 preon composites, with consequent stability of the proton against decay to a single lepton plus a meson. A composite Higgs boson can emerge as a two preon composite. Since anomaly matching for the relevant conserved global symmetry current is not obeyed by three fermion families, emergence of three composite families requires formation of a Goldstone boson with quantum numbers matching this current, which can be a light dark matter candidate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07477

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetry breakingcomposite modelstechnicolorgrand unnfication

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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