Supersymmetric tachyons
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 20 (17) , 6113-6120
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/20/17/043
Abstract
The authors discuss the supersymmetric tachyon and its applications. Both unitary and non-unitary representations for the subalgebra are examined. If they abandon the standpoint that any elementary particle in relativistic quantum theory must be described by unitary irreducible representations of the Poincare algebra or the superalgebra, then they can construct the supersymmetric invariant action for supersymmetric tachyons. The scalar neutrino's mass is lighter than the photino's mass if the neutrino is the tachyon and the photon is a massless particle in the simplest supersymmetry-breaking model. There is a possibility that the cold dark matter consists of scalar neutrinos.Keywords
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