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Effects of gravitational interaction are generally neglected in particle physics. A first order formulation of gravity is presented to include gravity in Quantum Mechanical Lagrangian of fermions. It is seen that fermions minimally coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Indrajit Ghose , Riya Barick , Amitabha Lahiri

Momentum space topology of relativistic gauge theory is considered. The topological invariants in momentum space are introduced for the case, when there is the mass gap while the fermion Green functions admit zeros. The index theorem is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-10-09 M. A. Zubkov

In this work the accelerated-decelerated transition in a primordial Universe is investigated by using the dynamics of fermion fields within the context of Einstein-Cartan theory, where apart from the curvature the space-time is also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Marlos O. Ribas , Gilberto M. Kremer

Naively, helicity flip amplitudes for fermions seem to vanish in the chiral limit of light-front QCD, which would make it nearly impossible to generate a small pion mass in this framework. Using a simple model, it is illustrated how a large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Matthias Burkardt

In this work, we build a model to combine the mass generated from the Higgs mechanism and that from the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking mechanism. This is motivated by the fermion mass hierarchy that the neutrino mass is smaller than the…

General Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Li-Gang Xia

The minimal coupling of massless fermions to gravity does not allow for their gravitational production solely based on the expansion of the Universe. We argue that this changes in presence of realistic and potentially detectable stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Azadeh Maleknejad , Joachim Kopp

Causal fermion systems are introduced as a general mathematical framework for formulating relativistic quantum theory. By specializing, we recover earlier notions like fermion systems in discrete space-time, the fermionic projector and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz , Daniela Schiefeneder

A geometric understanding of the origin of mass hierarchy among the standard model fermions have been addressed in a multiple warped spacetime. We show that the requirement of $10^{16}$ order warping between the Planck and the visible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-07 R. S. Hundi , Soumitra SenGupta

The problem of nonuniqueness of minimal coupling procedure for Einstein--Cartan (EC) gravity with matter is investigated. It is shown that the predictions of the theory of gravity with fermionic matter can radically change if the freedom of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Marcin Kazmierczak

Dynamical equations for fermion masses are derived using high scale universal mass generation and consequent mass evolution due to $SU(3), SU(2)$, and U(1$ gauge interaction. Assuming mass generation at the GUT scale $M=10^{14}$ GeV, one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 Yu. A. Simonov

Certain one-dimensional Fermi systems have an energy gap in the bulk spectrum while boundary states are described by one Majorana operator per boundary point. A finite system of length $L$ possesses two ground states with an energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Kitaev

The structure of the mass matrix, a challenging problem in the Standard Model, is closely related to flavor phenomenology and the understanding of the Yukawa interaction. We derive a factorized mass structure based on observed fermion mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Qingfeng Cao , Ying Zhang

Any theory of quantum gravity must ultimately be connected to observations. This demand is difficult to be met due to the high energies at which we expect the quantum nature of gravity to become manifest. Here we study, how viable quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Astrid Eichhorn

We present a reformulation of loop quantum gravity with a cosmological constant and no matter as a Fermi-liquid theory. When the topological sector is deformed and large gauge symmetry is broken, we show that the Chern-Simons state reduces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Stephon H. S. Alexander , Gianluca Calcagni

Exploring potential empirical manifestations of quantum gravity is a challenging pursuit. In this study, we utilise a lattice representation of a (2+1)D massive gravity toy model interacting with Dirac fermions that can support specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiannis K. Pachos , Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo , Martine Schut

The Thomas-Fermi model at finite temperature is extended to describe a system of self-gravitating weakly interacting massive fermions in a general-relativistic framework. By cooling a nondegenerate gas of weakly interacting massive fermions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Neven Bilic , Raoul D. Viollier

A system of self-gravitating massive fermions is studied in the framework of the general-relativistic Thomas-Fermi model. We study the properties of the free energy functional and its relation to Einstein's field equations. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Neven Bilic , Raoul D. Viollier

Recently various phenomenological implications of the existence of extra space-time dimensions have been investigated. In this letter, we construct a model with realistic fermion mass hierarchy with (large) extra dimensions beyond the usual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Koichi Yoshioka

The framed standard model (FSM) suggested earlier, which incorporates the Higgs field and 3 fermion generations as part of the framed gauge theory structure, is here developed further to show that it gives both quarks and leptons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-14 Michael J. Baker , J. Bordes , H. M. Chan , S. T. Tsou

In loop quantum gravity the discrete nature of quantum geometry acts as a natural regulator for matter theories. Studies of quantum field theory in quantum space-times in spherical symmetry in the canonical approach have shown that the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin