A Broken Gauge Approach to Gravitational Mass and Charge
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We argue that a spontaneous breakdown of local Weyl invariance offers a mechanism in which gravitational interactions contribute to the generation of particle masses and their electric charge. The theory is formulated in terms of a spacetime geometry whose natural connection has both dynamic torsion and non-metricity. Its structure illuminates the role of dynamic scales used to determine measurable aspects of particle interactions and it predicts an additional neutral vector boson with electroweak properties.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0112123,
title = {A Broken Gauge Approach to Gravitational Mass and Charge},
author = {T. Dereli and R. W. Tucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0112123},
year = {2009}
}
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24 pages. LATEX file. No figures