Title
Type-4 spinors: transmuting from Elko to single-helicity spinors
Date Issued
01 April 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Publisher(s)
Springer New York LLC
Abstract
In this communication we briefly report an unexpected theoretical discovery which emerge from the mapping of Elko mass-dimension-one spinors into single helicity spinors. Such procedure unveils a class of spinor which is classified as type-4 spinor field within Lounesto classification. In this paper we explore the underlying physical and mathematical contents of the type-4 spinor.
Volume
79
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85064037801
Source
European Physical Journal C
ISSN of the container
14346044
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements The authors express their gratitude to Prof. Julio Marny Hoff da Silva and Prof. José Abdalla Helayël-Neto for careful reading the entire first draft of the manuscript, providing many insightful suggestions and questions. We also thanks to Dr. Oswaldo Miranda for fruitful discussions in the final stage of the work. RJBR thanks CAPES and CNPq (Grant Number 155675/2018-4) for the financial support and CHCV thanks CNPq (PCI Grant Number 300381/2018-2) for the financial support.
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