Asymmetric particle-antiparticle Dirac equation: second quantization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12239v2
• Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 13:56:30 GMT
• Title: Asymmetric particle-antiparticle Dirac equation: second quantization
• Authors: Gustavo Rigolin
• Abstract summary: We build the fully relativistic quantum field theory related to the asymmetric Dirac fields. We show that particles and antiparticles sharing the same wave number have different energies and momenta. We conjecture that this non-degeneracy in the energies for particles and antiparticles may lead to a fully relativistic understanding of the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the present day universe.
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• Abstract: We build the fully relativistic quantum field theory related to the asymmetric Dirac fields. These fields are solutions of the asymmetric Dirac equation, a Lorentz covariant Dirac-like equation whose positive and "negative" frequency plane wave solutions' dispersion relations are no longer degenerate. At the second quantization level, we show that this implies that particles and antiparticles sharing the same wave number have different energies and momenta. In spite of that, we prove that by properly fixing the values of the relativistic invariants that define the asymmetric Dirac free field Lagrangian density, we can build a consistent, fully relativistic, and renormalizable quantum electrodynamics (QED) that is empirically equivalent to the standard QED. We discuss the reasons and implications of this non-trivial equivalence, exploring qualitatively other scenarios in which the asymmetric Dirac fields may lead to beyond the standard model predictions. We conjecture that this non-degeneracy in the energies for particles and antiparticles may lead to a fully relativistic understanding of the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the present day universe as well as to an alternative way of modeling the gravitational interaction between a particle and an antiparticle. We give a complete account of how the asymmetric Dirac fields and the corresponding annihilation and creation operators transform under improper Lorentz transformations (parity and time reversal operations) and under the charge conjugation operation. We also prove that the present theory respects the CPT theorem.

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