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- Title
The Vacuum Energy Problem in Quantum Gravity and the Masses of Elementary Particles.
- Authors
Minic, Djordje
- Abstract
This talk summarizes a new understanding of the cosmological constant problem, which essentially relies on a phase-space-like computation of the vacuum energy, both in the realm of quantum field theory coupled to gravity, and in the realm of a consistent formulation of a quantum theory of gravity and matter, such as string theory, combined with central properties of gravitational entropy as captured by the Bekenstein bound. This new understanding of the vacuum in a quantum theory of gravity and matter sheds light on the Higgs mass as well as the masses of quarks and leptons.
- Subjects
VACUUM energy (Astronomy); PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); QUANTUM field theory; QUANTUM theory; STRING theory; QUANTUM gravity; TOPOLOGICAL entropy; LEPTONS (Nuclear physics)
- Publication
Bulgarian Journal of Physics, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1310-0157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55318/bgjp.2024.51.1.060