Contributor info: Mr Vincenzo Afferrante

Vincenzo Afferrante, Axel Maas, René Sondenheimer, Pascal Törek

SciPost Phys. 10, 062 (2021) · published 10 March 2021 | Toggle abstract · pdf

Strict gauge invariance requires that physical left-handed leptons are actually bound states of the elementary left-handed lepton doublet and the Higgs field within the standard model. That they nonetheless behave almost like pure elementary particles is explained by the Fr\"ohlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism. Using lattice gauge theory, we test and confirm this mechanism for fermions. Though, due to the current inaccessibility of non-Abelian gauged Weyl fermions on the lattice, a model which contains vectorial leptons but which obeys all other relevant symmetries has been simulated.