Gauge and gravitational interactions with local scale invariance

Journal Article · Sat Mar 15 04:00:00 EST 1997 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.53237· OSTI ID:21165645

Pilot, Christopher; Rajpoot, Subhash ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine 04420 (United States)

Local scale invariance as a fundamental symmetry of Nature is proposed. This necessitates the existence of a new vector boson associated with local scale invariance. The new boson is referred to as the Weylon. The local gauge action is taken to be that of the Standard Model with SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) gauge symmetry. For gravitational interactions, two actions are considered, one linear in curvature and the other quadratic in torsion. In both types of theories breaking of the local gauge and scale invariance is achieved through the usual doublet of scalars and leads to massive vector bosons with the remarkable result that all Higgs degrees of freedom are entirely eliminated. In both models, the Weylon acquires a mass of around 10{sup 19} GeV.

• OSTI ID: 21165645
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 400; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACTION INTEGRAL
DEGREES OF FREEDOM
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS
HIGGS BOSONS
HIGGS MODEL
SCALE INVARIANCE
STANDARD MODEL
SU-2 GROUPS
SU-3 GROUPS
SYMMETRY
TORSION
U-1 GROUPS