On the possibility of six gravity related particles in the standard model of high energy physics

The standard model of high energy physics consists of various families of elementary and supposedly indivisible particles. In particular if we disregard for a moment antiparticles and colors, there is an equal number of leptons and quarks namely, six of each. By contrast, there are only two conjectured particles which are related to gravity and mass namely, one graviton and one Higgs boson. In the present paper, we consider the possibility of six rather than two particles which are related to the “weight” of the particles and may be termed, the gravitational sector covering both the mass and gravity aspects of the standard model. We work in a space time manifold which is at the same time supersymmetric as well as maximally symmetric. The number of particle-like states contained in such space is determined using various methodologies. Subsequently, the theoretical number of possible particles in the corresponding energy range of the standard model is deduced in a three-stage symmetry breaking procedure. By subtracting the 60 experimentally confirmed elementary particles of the standard model from the predicted 66 particles, we conjecture that the remaining six particles represent the postulated gravitational-like sector which could be one graviton in addition to three neutral and two charged Higgs bosons.