TY - JOUR
T1 - Elementary particles as higher-dimensional tachyons
AU - Davidson, Aharon
AU - Owen, David A.
PY - 1986/9/4
Y1 - 1986/9/4
N2 - Elementary particles are described as higher-dimensional tachyonic modes. Their electromagnetic inertial mass would not match the gravitational mass unless their scalar hypercharge vanishes. The corresponding unified geometry surrounding an elementary electric monopole is extracted. Remarkably, the ingoing five-dimensional geodetic lines, associated with like-sign charged test particles, cannot classically penetrate the finite three-dimensional spherical core on which the extra-dimensional circle shrinks to a point.
AB - Elementary particles are described as higher-dimensional tachyonic modes. Their electromagnetic inertial mass would not match the gravitational mass unless their scalar hypercharge vanishes. The corresponding unified geometry surrounding an elementary electric monopole is extracted. Remarkably, the ingoing five-dimensional geodetic lines, associated with like-sign charged test particles, cannot classically penetrate the finite three-dimensional spherical core on which the extra-dimensional circle shrinks to a point.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0002876680&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(86)90018-3
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(86)90018-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002876680
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 177
SP - 77
EP - 81
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1
ER -