Abstract
A spontaneously broken SU(2) x U(1) gauge theory with just one
"primordial" generation of fermions is formulated in the context of a
generally covariant theory which contains two measures of integration in
the action: the standard RADICAL:[[RADICAND:[-gd4x]]] and a
new one Phid4x, where Phi is a density built out of degrees of freedom
independent of the metric. Such type of models are known to produce a
satisfactory answer to the cosmological constant problem. Global scale
invariance is implemented. After SSB of scale invariance and gauge
symmetry it is found that with the conditions appropriate to laboratory
particle physics experiments, to each primordial fermion field
corresponds three physical fermionic states. Two of them correspond to
particles with constant masses and they are identified with the first
two generations of the electro-weak theory. In space-time regions where
the regular fermionic matter has the typical laboratory particle physics
density, the dilaton is decoupled from the regular fermionic matter.
This provides a resolution of the long-range force problem. The third
fermionic states at the classical level get non-polynomial interactions
which indicate the existence of fermionic condensate and fermionic mass
generation. The possible role of the measure Phi in some quantum gravity
effects is discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 220-229 |
| Journal | AIP Conference Proceedings |
| Volume | 624 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2002 |
Keywords
- Broken Symmetry
- Cosmology
- Electrons
- Fermions
- Gauge Theory
- Gravitation Theory
- Leptons
- Quarks
- Space-Time Functions
- Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries
- Observational cosmology
- Quantum gravity