Quantum Treatment of the Weyl Vector Meson
arXiv:1106.1956 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.105037
Abstract
The Weyl meson arises in theories with local scale invariance. It acts as a candidate for dark matter in a generalized Standard Model with local scale invariance. The Higgs particle is absent from the physical spectrum in this theory. We consider the quantization of this theory in detail, imposing suitable gauge fixing conditions. We also consider a further generalization of this model which includes an additional real scalar field. In this theory a Higgs like particle remains in the particle spectrum. Since this particle couples to the Weyl meson, it can lead to interesting phenomenology involving this vector field in particle colliders.
19 pages, no figures, significantly revised, no change in results or conclusions
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