A Broken Gauge Approach to Gravitational Mass and Charge

TL;DR

This paper proposes a model where spontaneous Weyl invariance breaking links gravity to particle mass and charge generation, predicting an extra neutral vector boson with electroweak features.

Contribution

It introduces a gravity-based mechanism for mass and charge generation via a spacetime with torsion and non-metricity, including a new neutral vector boson.

Findings

Predicts an additional neutral vector boson with electroweak properties

Links gravitational interactions to particle mass and charge generation

Provides a geometric framework with dynamic torsion and non-metricity

Abstract

We argue that a spontaneous breakdown of local Weyl invariance offers a mechanism in which gravitational interactions contribute to the generation of particle masses and their electric charge. The theory is formulated in terms of a spacetime geometry whose natural connection has both dynamic torsion and non-metricity. Its structure illuminates the role of dynamic scales used to determine measurable aspects of particle interactions and it predicts an additional neutral vector boson with electroweak properties.