Mass Generation in Structural Algebraic Quantum Field Theory: An alternative to the Higgs mechanism

TL;DR

This paper proposes an alternative to the Higgs mechanism where particles gain mass through nonlinear coupling to a universal scalar field within an algebraic quantum field theory framework, with implications for dark energy and dark matter.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mass generation mechanism in algebraic quantum field theory that does not rely on the Higgs field, expanding theoretical options for particle mass origin.

Findings

Massless particles can acquire mass via nonlinear coupling to a scalar field.

The framework offers an alternative to the Higgs mechanism in the standard model.

Conjectures relate this mechanism to dark energy and dark matter.

Abstract

Within the recently proposed structure-inclusive algebraic formulation of quantum field theory, we show that a massless particle can acquire mass by special nonlinear coupling to a universal massless scalar field; establishing an alternative to the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of particle physics. We end with a conjecture concerning dark energy and dark matter.