Title
Electric charge quantisation in 331 models with exotic charges
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
The extensions of the Standard Model based on the SU(3) C⊗ SU(3) L⊗ U(1) X gauge group are known as 331 models. Different properties such as the fermion assignment and the electric charges of the exotic spectrum, that define a particular 331 model, are fixed by a β parameter. In this article, we study the electric charge quantisation in two versions of the 331 models, set by the conditions β=1/(33) and β= 0. In these frameworks, arise exotic particles, for instance, new leptons and gauge bosons with a fractional electric charge. Additionally, depending on the version, quarks with non-standard fractional electric charges or even neutral appear. Considering the definition of electric charge operator as a linear combination of the group generators that annihilates the vacuum, classical constraints from the invariance of the Lagrangian, and gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational anomalies cancellation, the quantisation of the electric charge can be verified in both versions.
Volume
94
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086181767
Source
Pramana - Journal of Physics
ISSN of the container
03044289
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