Weyl fermion creation by cosmological gravitational wave background at 1-loop

Abstract Weyl fermions of spin 1 2 $$ \frac{1}{2} $$ minimally coupled to Einstein’s gravity in 4 dimensions cannot be produced purely gravitationally in an expanding Universe at tree level. Surprisingly, as we showed in a recent letter [1], this changes at gravitational 1-loop when cosmic perturbat...

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Main Authors: Azadeh Maleknejad, Joachim Kopp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-01-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2025)023