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Testing the mechanism of lepton compositeness
by Vincenzo Afferrante, Axel Maas, René Sondenheimer, Pascal Törek
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Vincenzo Afferrante · Axel Maas |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02301v4 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | March 2, 2021 |
| Date submitted: | Feb. 10, 2021, 9:42 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Vincenzo Afferrante |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
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.
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Updated figures 1-2-4-5, minor changes in text
Published as SciPost Phys. 10, 062 (2021)