English

Low-energy sector of 8-dimensional General Relativity: Electro-Weak model and neutrino mass

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

In a Kaluza-Klein space-time V4S3V^{4}\otimes S^{3}, we demonstrate that the dimensional reduction of spinors provides a 4-field, whose associated SU(2) gauge connections are geometrized. However, additional and gauge-violating terms arise, but they are highly suppressed by a factor β\beta, which fixes the amount of the spinor dependence on extra-coordinates. The application of this framework to the Electro-Weak model is performed, thus giving a lower bound for β\beta from the request of the electric charge conservation. Moreover, we emphasize that also the Higgs sector can be reproduced, but neutrino masses are predicted and the fine-tuning on the Higgs parameters can be explained, too.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0606040,
  title  = {Low-energy sector of 8-dimensional General Relativity: Electro-Weak model and neutrino mass},
  author = {Francesco Cianfrani and Giovanni Montani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0606040},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 figure, to appear on Int. J. Mod. Phys. D