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Lorentz invariance from Dirac spinor

Physics Asked by d8586 on May 28, 2021

I have a really naive question that I didn’t manage to explain to myself. If I consider SUSY theory without R-parity conservation there exist an operator that mediates proton decay. This operator is

$$u^c d^c tilde d^c$$

where $tilde d$ is the scalar superpartner of down quark. Now, being a scalar, this field doesn’t transform under Lorentz transformation. This means that the term
$u^c d^c$ is Lorentz invariant. Being $u$ and $d$ 4-component Dirac spinor this has to be read as

$$(u^c)^T d^c$$

in order to proper contract rows and columns.

This means that also $u^T d$ should be Lorentz invariant…

However, Lorentz invariant are build with bar spinors, i.e.

$$bar psi psi$$ is Lorentz invariant, while I don’t see how

$$psi^T psi$$ can be Lorentz invariant.
Clearly I am missing something really basic here.

One Answer

Ah: The $C$ is key. The spinor $d^TC$ is the charge-conugate spinor (often denoted $d^c$), which behaves like a barred spinor as far as Lorentz transformations are concerned.

You can look up charge conjugation, Majorana spinors and similar things in most QFT textbook, e.g. in Sohnius' introduction to SUSY (the Appendix): https://iktp.tu-dresden.de/Lehre/SS2009/SUSY/literatur/sohnius_article.pdf

(Note that are several conventions, so you have to make sure who uses what.)

Answered by Toffomat on May 28, 2021

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