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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17038277 |
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- <p dir="ltr">The Standard Model of particle physics successfully describes the photon as a point-like, four-dimensional gauge boson, the quantum of the electromagnetic field governed by the principles of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED).1 While this model has been experimentally verified to extraordinary precision, it is widely considered an effective low-energy theory, leaving fundamental questions such as the nature of dark matter and the hierarchy problem unanswered.3 This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework, termed the Theory of Intrinsic Gauge Dimensionality, which postulates that the four-dimensional description of the photon is an emergent phenomenon. We propose that the photon is fundamentally a seven-dimensional object, described by a gauge field propagating on a product manifold</p> <p dir="ltr">M4×K3, where M4 is the conventional Minkowski spacetime and K3 is a compact, internal three-dimensional manifold. This internal geometry is posited not as a property of spacetime itself, but as an intrinsic characteristic of the gauge field. Through the established mechanism of Kaluza-Klein (KK) decomposition, we demonstrate that this framework naturally recovers the massless, spin-1 photon of the Standard Model as the zero-mode excitation of the field.5 Furthermore, the theory predicts the existence of an infinite tower of massive, photon-like vector bosons, the Kaluza-Klein modes, whose masses are quantized and inversely proportional to the size of the internal manifold. The phenomenological implications of this structure are profound, offering a compelling new candidate for cosmological dark matter in the form of the lightest stable KK mode and generating a rich spectrum of testable signatures at high-energy colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).7</p>