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Chirality in an $E_8$ model of elementary particles

General Physics 2022-10-13 v1

Abstract

We show how chirality emerges naturally from an embedding of the standard model of particle physics into E8(24)E_{8(-24)}. The well-known argument that there is no chiral theory of fundamental physics in E8E_8 is avoided by implementing chirality not as a property of the complexified Lorentz group, but as a property of the complex representations of the real Lorentz group, combined with a real scalar. This avoids the problems of complexification, and ensures that the model is completely contained in the real Lie group.

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@article{arxiv.2210.06029,
  title  = {Chirality in an $E_8$ model of elementary particles},
  author = {Robert A. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.06029},
  year   = {2022}
}
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