Mass dimension one fermions: Constructing darkness

Abstract

Let $\Theta$ be the Wigner time reversal operator for spin half and let $\varphi$ be a Weyl spinor. Then, for a left-transforming $\varphi$, the construct ${\zeta }_{\lambda }\Theta {\varphi }^{\ast }$ yields a right-transforming spinor. If instead, $\varphi$ is a right-transforming spinor, then the construct ${\zeta }_{\rho }\Theta {\varphi }^{\ast }$ results in a left-transforming spinor (${\zeta }_{\lambda ,\rho }$ are phase factors). This allows us to introduce two sets of four-component spinors. Setting ${\zeta }_{\lambda }$ and ${\zeta }_{\rho }$ to $\pm i$ render all eight spinors as eigenspinor of the charge conjugation operator~$\mathcal{C}$ (called ELKO). This allows us to introduce two quantum fields. A calculation of the vacuum expectation value of the time-ordered product of the fields and their adjoints reveals the mass dimension of the fields to be one. Both fields are local in the canonical sense of quantum field theory. Interestingly, one of the fields is fermionic and the other bosonic. The mass dimension of the introduced fermionic fields and the matter fields of the Standard Model carry an intrinsic mismatch. As such, they provide natural darkness for the new fields with respect to the Standard Model doublets. The statistics and locality are controlled by a set of phases. These are explicitly given. Then we observe that in $p_{\mu }{p}^{\mu }=m^2$, Dirac took the simplest square root of the $4\times 4$ identity matrix $I$ (in $I\times m^2$, while introducing ${\gamma }_{\mu }{p}^{\mu }$ as the square root of the left hand side of the dispersion relation), and as such he implicitly ignored the remaining fifteen. When we examine the remaining roots, we obtain additional bosonic and fermionic dark matter candidates of spin half. We point out that by early nineteen seventies, Dirac had suspected the existence of spin half bosons, in the same space as his fermions. Abstract truncated.

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