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T1 - A broken gauge approach to gravitational mass and charge
AU - Dereli, Tekin
AU - Tucker, Robin W.
N1 - Symmetry breaking forms a cornerstone in the phenomenology of fundamental particle interactions. It was shown here for the first time that certain quanta can acquire gravitational mass by a breakdown of spacetime conformal symmetry, thereby releasing the role of the Higgs effect from purely ""internal"" symmetries. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Physics
PY - 2002/3/19
Y1 - 2002/3/19
N2 - We argue that a spontaneous breakdown of local Weyl invariance offers a mechanism in which gravitational interactions contribute to the generation of particle masses and their electric charge. The theory is formulated in terms of a spacetime geometry whose natural connection has both dynamic torsion and non-metricity. Its structure illuminates the role of dynamic scales used to determine measurable aspects of particle interactions and it predicts an additional neutral vector boson with electroweak properties.
AB - We argue that a spontaneous breakdown of local Weyl invariance offers a mechanism in which gravitational interactions contribute to the generation of particle masses and their electric charge. The theory is formulated in terms of a spacetime geometry whose natural connection has both dynamic torsion and non-metricity. Its structure illuminates the role of dynamic scales used to determine measurable aspects of particle interactions and it predicts an additional neutral vector boson with electroweak properties.
KW - Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
KW - Space-Time Symmetries
KW - Classical Theories of Gravity
U2 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/041
DO - 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/041
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2002
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 041
ER -