Emergent Electroweak Gravity
| dc.creator | McElrath, Bob | |
| dc.date | 2008-12-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:24:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:24:27Z | |
| dc.description | We show that any massive cosmological relic particle with small self-interactions is a super-fluid today, due to the broadening of its wave packet, and lack of any elastic scattering. The WIMP dark matter picture is only consistent its mass $M \gg M_{\rm Pl}$ in order to maintain classicality. The dynamics of a super-fluid are given by the excitation spectrum of bound state quasi-particles, rather than the center of mass motion of constituent particles. If this relic is a fermion with a repulsive interaction mediated by a heavy boson, such as neutrinos interacting via the $Z^0$, the condensate has the same quantum numbers as the vierbein of General Relativity. Because there exists an enhanced global symmetry $SO(3,1)_{space}\times SO(3,1)_{spin}$ among the fermion's self-interactions broken only by its kinetic term, the long wavelength fluctuation around this condensate is a Goldstone graviton. A gravitational theory exists in the low energy limit of the Standard Model's Electroweak sector below the weak scale, with a strength that is parametrically similar to $G_N$. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2696 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2696 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/214328 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | Other Condensed Matter | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Emergent Electroweak Gravity | |
| dc.type | text |