Vacuum of the Standard Model and its Cosmological Aspects

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new vacuum definition in the Standard Model, revealing a vacuum field that may explain cosmological phenomena such as inflation, dark energy, and magnetic fields.

Contribution

It introduces a novel vacuum concept with an electromagnetic vacuum field in the Standard Model, linking particle physics to cosmological effects.

Findings

Vacuum field is a four-vector with electromagnetic properties.

Vacuum field is invariant under U(1)_{em} gauge transformation.

Potential explanation for inflation, dark energy, and cosmic magnetic fields.

Abstract

Recently, we have proposed a definition for the vacuum and suggest a mechanism for symmetry breaking. In this mechanism extra massless fields, vacuum fields, arise. We apply our method to the standard model of particle physics and obtain vacuum sector of this model. Vacuum field of the standard model is a four-vector with electromagnetic nature. This field is invariant under $ U(1)_{em} $ gauge transformation. We speculate that it could be responsible for many cosmological phenomena like inflation, dark energy and cosmic magnetic fields.