Solving particle-antiparticle and cosmological constant problems
Résumé
Following the results of our publications, we argue that fundamental objects in particle theory are not elementary particles and antiparticles but objects described by irreducible representations (IRs) of the de Sitter (dS) algebra.
One might ask why, then, experimental data give the impression that particles and antiparticles are fundamental and there are conserved additive quantum numbers
(electric charge, baryon quantum number and others). The matter is that, at the present stage of the universe, the contraction parameter $R$ from the dS to Poincare algebra is very large and, in the formal limit $R\to\infty$,
one IR of the dS algebra splits into two IRs of the Poincare algebra corresponding to a particle and
its antiparticle with the same masses. The problem why the quantities $(c,\hbar,R)$ are as are does not arise because they are contraction parameters for transitions from more general Lie algebras to less general ones. Then the baryon asymmetry of the universe
problem does not arise and the phenomenon of cosmological acceleration (PCA) is described without uncertainties as an inevitable kinematical consequence of quantum theory in semiclassical approximation. In particular, it is not necessary to involve dark energy the physical meaning of
which is a mystery. In our approach, background space and its geometry (metric and connection) are not used, $R$ has nothing to do with the radius of dS space, but, in semiclassical approximation, the results for PCA are the same as in General Relativity if
$\Lambda=3/R^2$, i.e., $\Lambda>0$ and there is
no freedom in choosing the value of $\Lambda$.
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