Constraining the standard model with a supergroup
Description
The author has introduced in this paper the conjecture that the δμ(2/1) superalgebra transitions relate particle fields to ghost fields, of the type introduced by Feynman, DeWitt, Faddeev and Popov to ensure the Unitarity of Quantized Gauge Theories. δμ(2/1) thus resembles the Becchi-Rouet-Stora and the Curci-Ferrari algebras, also relating particle and ghost fields, and providing algebraic shortcuts, simplifying the imposition of Unitarity throughout the renormalization procedure. However, the author has also noted that for the spin 1/2 (matter) fields, the grading of the carrier vector-spaces is correlated with chirality. Indeed, the author has proved elsewhere that the (reducible) matrices representing U(2)/sub w/ x SU(3)/sub color/, when acting on supermultiplets constructed from juxtapositions of independent matter multiplets and graded according to chirality (thus disregarding Lorentz invariance in that auxiliary construction) have vanishing supertraces. Coming back to the statistics of the submultiplets in the matter representations, the author notices that μ/sub q/ of equation is proportional to the helicities of the leptons whose (y, vertical bar i vertical bar, i/sub 3/) quantum numbers are given by the above representations. Thus, the grading in δμ(2/1) coincides with helicity. The left-handed leptons are assigned to (-1, 1/2+), the left-handed quarks to (1/3, 1/2/sup +/); their right-handed antiparticles belong to (1, 1/2/sup +/) and (-1/3,1/2/sup +/)
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- World Scientific Pub. Co.
- Imprint Place
- Teaneck, NJ (USA)
- ISBN
- 9971-50-117-1
- Imprint Title
- Rationale of beings: Recent developments in particle, nuclear and general physics
- Journal Page Range
- p. 14-28.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19006346
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; GRADED LIE GROUPS; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; GROUP THEORY; HIGGS MODEL; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LEPTONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUARKS; SCALAR FIELDS; STANDARD MODEL; SU-2 GROUPS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; U-1 GROUPS; WEAK INTERACTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTERACTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS