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Mass Mixing, the Fourth Generation, and the Kinematic Higgs Mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-21 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We describe how to construct chiral fermion mass terms using Dirac-Kahler (DK) spinors. Classical massive DK spinors are shown to be equivalent to four generations of Dirac spinors with equal mass coupled to a background U(2,2) gauge field. Quantization breaks U(2,2) to U(2)xU(2), lifts mass spectrum degeneracy, and generates a non-trivial mass mixing matrix.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3593,
  title  = {Mass Mixing, the Fourth Generation, and the Kinematic Higgs Mechanism},
  author = {Alexander N. Jourjine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3593},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages. No figures. Phys Lett B version. Minor typos fixed