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Publications in Scientific Journals:

D. Ahluwalia, D. Grumiller:
"Dark matter: A Spin one half fermion field with mass dimension one?";
Physical Review D, 72 (2005), 067701.



English abstract:
We report an unexpected theoretical discovery of a spin one half matter field with mass dimension one. It is based on a complete set of eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator. Due to its unusual properties with respect to charge conjugation and parity it belongs to a non standard Wigner class. Consequently, the theory exhibits non-locality with (CPT)^2 = - I. Its dominant interaction with known forms of matter is via Higgs, and with gravity. This aspect leads us to contemplate it as a first-principle candidate for dark matter.

German abstract:
We report an unexpected theoretical discovery of a spin one half matter field with mass dimension one. It is based on a complete set of eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator. Due to its unusual properties with respect to charge conjugation and parity it belongs to a non standard Wigner class. Consequently, the theory exhibits non-locality with (CPT)^2 = - I. Its dominant interaction with known forms of matter is via Higgs, and with gravity. This aspect leads us to contemplate it as a first-principle candidate for dark matter.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.067701

Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_170167.pdf



Related Projects:
Project Head Daniel Grumiller:
Nichtperturbative Aspekte von 2d Dilatongravitation


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