The Vacuum Energy Problem in Quantum Gravity and the Masses of Elementary Particles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This talk summarizes a new understanding of the cosmological constant problem, which essentially relies on a phase-space-like computation of the vacuum energy, both in the realm of quantum field theory coupled to gravity, and in the realm of a consistent formulation of a quantum theory of gravity and matter, such as string theory, combined with central properties of gravitational entropy as captured by the Bekenstein bound. This new understanding of the vacuum in a quantum theory of gravity and matter sheds light on the Higgs mass as well as the masses of quarks and leptons.
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@article{arxiv.2305.12593,
title = {The Vacuum Energy Problem in Quantum Gravity and the Masses of Elementary Particles},
author = {Djordje Minic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12593},
year = {2023}
}
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10 pages. To appear in the conference proceedings of BASIC 2023