From dipole spinors to a new class of mass dimension one fermions

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a quite recent new class of spin one-half fermions, namely Ahluwalia class-7 spinors, endowed with mass dimensionality 1 rather than 3/2, being candidates to describe dark matter. Such spinors, under the Dirac adjoint structure, belongs to the Lounesto’s class-6, namely, dipole spinors. Up to our knowledge, dipole spinor fields have Weyl spinor fields as their most known representative, nonetheless, here we explore the dark counterpart of the dipole spinors, which represents eigenspinors of the chirality operator.