Localization of 5D Elko spinors on Minkowski branes

Liu, Yu-Xiao; Zhou, Xiaoliang; Yang, Ke; Chen, Feng-Wei

doi:10.1103/physrevd.86.064012

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“…Localisation of Elko in the brane has been considered in references [91,92]. Elko in the presence of torsion has been a subject of several insightful papers by Luca Fabbri.…”

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The Theory of Local Mass Dimension One Fermions of Spin One Half

Ahluwalia

2017

Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras

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Abstract. About a decade ago the present author in collaboration with Daniel Grumiller presented an 'unexpected theoretical discovery' of spin one-half fermions with mass dimension one [1,2]. In the decade that followed a significant number of groups explored intriguing mathematical and physical properties of the new construct. However, the formalism suffered from two troubling features, that of non-locality and a subtle violation of Lorentz symmetry. Here, we trace the origin of both of these issues to a hidden freedom in the definition of duals of spinors and the associated field adjoints. In the process, for the first time, we provide a quantum theory of spin one-half fermions that is free from all the mentioned issues. The interactions of the new fermions are restricted to dimension-four quartic self interaction, and also to a dimensionfour coupling with the Higgs. A generalised Yukawa coupling of the new fermions with neutrinos provides an hitherto unsuspected source of lepton-number violation. The new fermions thus present a first-principle dark matter partner to Dirac fermions of the standard model of high energy physics with contrasting mass dimensions -that of three halves for the latter versus one of the former without mutating the statistics from fermionic to bosonic.

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“…Localisation of Elko in the brane has been considered in references [91,92]. Elko in the presence of torsion has been a subject of several insightful papers by Luca Fabbri.…”

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The Theory of Local Mass Dimension One Fermions of Spin One Half

Ahluwalia

2017

Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras

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“…[93,95]. However, the Yukawa-type coupling is not appropriate for all brane models and the expression of the coupling constant will be determined exactly by the parameters in the models.…”

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“…As what we have done in our previous work [93,95], we introduce the KK decomposition of the five-dimensional Elko spinor…”

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“…[93][94][95]. It was found that the zero mode of Elko spinor can be localized on branes thought a Yukawa-type coupling with the background scalar field [93,95], or the Ricci scalar [95]. However, the Yukawa-type coupling is only appropriate for some kinds of thick branes, and the coupling constant must be taken as some particular expression determined by the parameters in the brane models.…”

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“…Inspired by this, in this paper, we will introduce this new type of coupling, i.e., the non-minimal coupling f (φ)L Elko between the five-dimensional Elko spinor and the background scalar field, where f (φ) is a function of the backgound scalar field and L Elko is the Lagrangian of the five-dimensional Elko spinor. We will study the localization of the Elko spinor with this new coupling on the Minkowski thick branes which have been considered in Yukawa-type coupling case [93] and compare the characteristics between the Yukawa-type coupling and this new coupling. We will show that localized Elko zero mode on the branes can be realized for different forms of f (φ), which means that this new coupling can provide us more possibilities of localizing the Elko zero mode.…”

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Localization of five-dimensional Elko spinors with non-minimal coupling on thick branes

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Zhao

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Eur. Phys. J. C

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It has been found that the zero mode of a fivedimensional Elko spinor could be localized on branes by introducing a Yukawa-type coupling between the Elko spinor and the background scalar field or the Ricci scalar. However, the Yukawa-type coupling is not appropriate for all brane models. In this paper, we explore other localization mechanism for the Elko spinor by introducing the non-minimal coupling f (φ)L Elko between the five-dimensional Elko spinor and the background scalar field. We give the general expressions of the Elko zero mode and the function f (φ). Through two thick brane models and three concrete examples, we show that the Elko zero mode can be localized on the branes by this new mechanism. This provides us more possibilities of localizing the Elko zero mode.

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