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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: 2021-03-02
Date submitted: 2021-02-10 09:42
Submitted by: Afferrante, Vincenzo
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Theory
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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)


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Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2021-2-17 (Invited Report)

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