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In theoretical particle physics, the non-commutative Standard Model (best known as Spectral Standard Model ), is a model based on noncommutative geometry that unifies a modified form of general relativity with the Standard Model (extended with right-handed neutrinos).

The model postulates that space-time is the product of a 4-dimensional compact spin manifold ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}}$ by a finite space ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}}$. The full Lagrangian (in Euclidean signature) of the Standard model minimally coupled to gravity is obtained as pure gravity over that product space. It is therefore close in spirit to Kaluza-Klein theory but without the problem of massive tower of states.

The parameters of the model live at unification scale and physical predictions are obtained by running the parameters down through Renormalization.

It is worth stressing that it is more than a simple reformation of the Standard Model. For example, the scalar sector and the fermions representations are more constrained than in Effective field theory.

History

First ideas to use noncommutative geometry to particle physics appeared in 1988-89 , and were formalized a couple of years later by Alain Connes and John Lott in what is known as the Connes-Lott model . The Connes-Lott model did not incorporate the gravitational field.

In 1997, Ali Chamseddine and Alain Connes published a new action principle, the Spectral Action , that made possible to incorporate the gravitational field into the model. Nevertheless, it was quickly noted that the model suffered from the notorious fermion-doubling problem (quadrupling of the fermions) and required neutrinos to be massless. One year later, experiments in Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory began to show that solar and atmospheric neutrinos change flavors and therefore are massive, ruling out the Spectral Standard Model.

Only in 2006 a solution to the latter problem was proposed, independently by John W. Barrett and Alain Connes , almost at the same time. They show that massive neutrinos can be incorporated into the model by disentangling the KO-dimension (which is defined modulo 8) from the metric dimension (which is zero) for the finite space. By setting the KO-dimension to be 6, not only massive neutrinos were possible, but the see-saw mechanism was imposed by the formalism and the fermion doubling problem was also addressed.

The new version of the model was studied in and under an additional assumption, known as the "big desert" hypothesis, computations were carried out to predict the Higgs boson mass around 170 GeV and postdict the Top quark mass.

In August 2008, Tevatron experiments excluded a Higgs mass of 158 to 175 GeV at the 95% confidence level. Alain Connes acknowledged on a blog about non-commutative geometry that the prediction about the Higgs mass was falsified . In July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson with a mass around 125 Gev.

A proposal to address the problem of the Higgs mass was published by Ali Chamseddine and Alain Connes in 2012 by taking into account a real scalar field that was already present in the model but was neglected in previous analysis. Another solution to the Higgs mass problem was put forward by Christopher Estrada and Matilde Marcolli by studying renormalization group flow in presence of gravitational correction terms .

See also

• Noncommutative geometry
• Noncommutative quantum field theory
• Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics

Notes

1. ^ Chamseddine, A.H.; Connes, A. (2012). "Resilience of the Spectral Standard Model". JHEP. arXiv:1208.1030. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2012)104.
2. Chamseddine, A.H.; Connes, A.; van Suijlekom, W. D. (2013). "Beyond the Spectral Standard Model: Emergence of Pati-Salam Unification". JHEP. arXiv:1304.8050. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2013)132.
3. Connes, Alain (1988). "Essay on physics and noncommutative geometry". The interface of mathematics and particle physics.
4. Dubois-Violette, Michel (1988). "Dérivations et calcul différentiel non commutatif". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I (307): 403–408.
5. Dubois-Violette, Michel; Kerner, Richard; Madore, John (1989). "Classical bosons in a non-commutative geometry". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 6 (11).
6. Dubois-Violette, Michel; Kerner, Richard; Madore, John (1989). "Gauge bosons in a noncommutative geometry". Physics Letters B. 217 (4): 495–488. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(89)90083-X.
7. Dubois-Violette, Michel; Kerner, Richard; Madore, John (1989). "Noncommutative differential geometry and new models of gauge theory". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 323 (31): 495–488. doi:10.1063/1.528917.
8. Connes, Alain; Lott, John (1991). "Particle models and noncommutative geometry". Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. doi:10.1016/0920-5632(91)90120-4.
9. Chamseddine, Ali H.; Connes, Alain (1997). "The Spectral Action Principle". Communications in Mathematical Physics volume 186: 731–750. arXiv:hep-th/9606001. doi:10.1007/s002200050126.
10. Lizzi, Fedele; Mangano, Gianpiero; Miele, Gennaro; Sparano, Giovanni (1997). "Fermion Hilbert Space and Fermion Doubling in the Noncommutative Geometry Approach to Gauge Theories". Physical Review D. 55 (10). arXiv:hep-th/9610035. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.55.6357.
11. Gracia-Bondía, Jose M.; Iochum, Bruno; Schücker, Thomas (1998). "The standard model in noncommutative geometry and fermion doubling". Physical Review B, 416: 123–128. arXiv:hep-th/9709145. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01310-5.
12. Barrett, John W. (2006). "A Lorentzian version of the non-commutative geometry of the standard model of particle physics". Journal of Mathematical Physics, 48. arXiv:hep-th/0608221. doi:10.1063/1.2408400.
13. Connes, Alain (2006). "Noncommutative Geometry and the standard model with neutrino mixing". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006. arXiv:hep-th/0608226. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/11/081.
14. Chamseddine, Ali H.; Connes, Alain; Marcolli, Matilde (2006). "Gravity and the standard model with neutrino mixing". Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 11 (6). arXiv:hep-th/0610241. doi:10.4310/ATMP.2007.v11.n6.a3.
15. CDF and D0 Collaborations and Tevatron New Phenomena Higgs Working Group (2008). "Combined CDF and D0 Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production at High Mass (155−200−GeV/c2)(155-200-GeV/c^{2)}(155−200−GeV/c2) with 3 fb−1fb^{-1}fb−1 of Data". Proceedings, 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2008). arXiv:0808.0534.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
16. "Irony". Retrieved 4 August 2008.
17. Estrada, Christopher; Marcolli, Matilde (2013). "Asymptotic safety, hypergeometric functions, and the Higgs mass in spectral action models". International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics. 10 (7). arXiv:1208.5023. doi:10.1142/S0219887813500369.

References

• Alain Connes (1994) Noncommutative geometry. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-185860-X.
• -------- (1995) "Noncommutative geometry and reality," J. Math. Phys. 36: 6194.
• -------- (1996) "Gravity coupled with matter and the foundation of noncommutative geometry," Comm. Math. Phys. 155: 109.
• -------- (2006) "Noncommutative geometry and physics,"
• -------- and M. Marcolli, Noncommutative Geometry: Quantum Fields and Motives. American Mathematical Society (2007).
• Chamseddine, A., A. Connes (1996) "The spectral action principle," Comm. Math. Phys. 182: 155.
• Chamseddine, A., A. Connes, M. Marcolli (2007) "Gravity and the Standard Model with neutrino mixing," Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 11: 991.
• Jureit, Jan-H., Thomas Krajewski, Thomas Schücker, and Christoph A. Stephan (2007) "On the noncommutative standard model," Acta Phys. Polon. B38: 3181-3202.
• Schücker, Thomas (2005) Forces from Connes's geometry. Lecture Notes in Physics 659, Springer.

External links

• Alain Connes' official website with downloadable papers.
• Alain Connes's Standard Model.

• Particle physics