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Emergent Electroweak Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-01-06 v1 Astrophysics Other Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that any massive cosmological relic particle with small self-interactions is a super-fluid today, due to the broadening of its wave packet, and lack of any elastic scattering. The WIMP dark matter picture is only consistent its mass MMPlM \gg M_{\rm Pl} in order to maintain classicality. The dynamics of a super-fluid are given by the excitation spectrum of bound state quasi-particles, rather than the center of mass motion of constituent particles. If this relic is a fermion with a repulsive interaction mediated by a heavy boson, such as neutrinos interacting via the Z0Z^0, the condensate has the same quantum numbers as the vierbein of General Relativity. Because there exists an enhanced global symmetry SO(3,1)space×SO(3,1)spinSO(3,1)_{space}\times SO(3,1)_{spin} among the fermion's self-interactions broken only by its kinetic term, the long wavelength fluctuation around this condensate is a Goldstone graviton. A gravitational theory exists in the low energy limit of the Standard Model's Electroweak sector below the weak scale, with a strength that is parametrically similar to GNG_N.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2696,
  title  = {Emergent Electroweak Gravity},
  author = {Bob McElrath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2696},
  year   = {2009}
}

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