In the quest for a global (super)symmetry breaking mechanism: an extension of the vibronic mixing process to superpartners

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel global symmetry-breaking mechanism extending vibronic effects to include fermion-boson superpartners, potentially explaining supersymmetry as a broken symmetry in condensed and nuclear matter.

Contribution

It generalizes vibronic mixing to fermion-boson superpartners, offering a new perspective on supersymmetry breaking mechanisms.

Findings

Proposes a new symmetry-breaking mechanism involving superpartner pairs.

Constructs examples with various particle combinations in matter.

Suggests superpartners propagate helically from mixing sites.

Abstract

We propose a global symmetry-breaking mechanism based on an extension of the vibronic (cooperative Jahn-Teller) effects (comprising electron-phonon superpartners) to generalize them into fermion-boson superpartners. Examples of superpairs are constructed by combining phonons, photons, pi-mesons, etc. with electrons, holes, nucleons, etc. in condensed and nuclear matter. The obtained symmetry-breaking mechanism operating amidst the superpartner pairs may be just what is needed to justify the status of supersymmetry as a broken-symmetry phenomenon. Following the extended vibronic mixing of fermion states by the appropriate heavy boson superpartner, the latter propagates along a helical path away from the mixing site.