Triplicity of Quarks and Leptons

Preprint

2 February 2005

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0502024

Abstract

Quarks come in three colors and have electric charges in multiples of one-third. There are also three families of quarks and leptons. Whereas the first two properties can be understood in terms of unification symmetries such as SU(5), SO(10), or E_6, why there should only be three families remains a mystery. I propose how all three properties involving the number three are connected in a fivefold application of the gauge symmetry SU(3).

Keywords

PROPERTIES INVOLVING
FIVEFOLD APPLICATION
ELECTRIC CHARGES
LEPTONS QUARKS
TRIPLICITY
COLORS
QUARKS

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Version 1, 2005-02-02, ArXiv
Published version: Modern Physics Letters A, 20 (26), 1953.

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