Unveiling a spinor field classification with non-Abelian gauge symmetries

Nov 21, 2017
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 780 (2018) 427-431
  • Published: May 10, 2018
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A spinor fields classification with non-Abelian gauge symmetries is introduced, generalizing the U(1) gauge symmetries-based Lounesto's classification. Here, a more general classification, contrary to the Lounesto's one, encompasses spinor multiplets, corresponding to non-Abelian gauge fields. The particular case of SU(2) gauge symmetry, encompassing electroweak and electromagnetic conserved charges, is then implemented by a non-Abelian spinor classification, now involving 14 mixed classes of spinor doublets. A richer flagpole, dipole, and flag-dipole structure naturally descends from this general classification. The Lounesto's classification of spinors is shown to arise as a Pauli's singlet, into this more general classification.
Note:
  • 12 pages
  • symmetry: gauge
  • spinor
  • gauge field theory: SU(2)
  • charge: conservation law
  • electroweak interaction
  • electromagnetic
  • Dirac equation
  • Fierz identity