Journal
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS
Volume 229, Issue 11, Pages 2003-2022Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2020-900277-x
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A self-contained review on spin-half mass dimension one fermions and their higher-spin generalizations is presented. Starting from the two-component left-handed Weyl spinors, the Dirac spinors and Elko (eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator) are constructed. After elaborating on their similarities and differences, we generalize the spin-half Elko to higher-spin. The field operators constructed from Elko and their higher-spin generalizations are shown to be of mass dimension one with positive-definite free Hamiltonians. The physical significance of higher-spin mass dimension one particles and further extensions in the context of Lounesto classification are discussed.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available