Spinor Adjoints, Gauge Invariance and a new Road to Sterile Neutrinos

TL;DR

This paper explores gauge transformations of spinorial dual structures and proposes a new approach to coupling Elko spinors with standard model neutrinos, aiming to advance sterile neutrino theories.

Contribution

It introduces a general framework for spinor duals considering discrete symmetries and gauge invariance, enabling a novel coupling mechanism for sterile neutrino models.

Findings

Defined a general spinor dual structure respecting discrete symmetries.

Analyzed gauge freedom implications for spinor duals.

Proposed a new coupling between Elko and standard neutrinos.

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the possibilities of certain gauge transformations regarding some specific spinorial dual structures. To this end, we define a general structure, which can be expressed in terms of discrete symmetry operators associated with parity, charge conjugation, and time reversal. To this end, we consider the demand of tensor covariance of the spinor bilinears under space-time transformations and also deep algebraic considerations such as the invertibility of the dual structure which guarantee that the physical information remains unchanged (respecting the Fierz-Pauli-Kofink identities), and so on. Later, we examine the global gauge freedom implicated by each choice of dual and point out the physical implications. The final goal is achieved by establishing a well-defined coupling between the Elko and standard model neutrinos in a prelude for a new formulation of the hypothetical so-called sterile neutrino.