TRIPLICITY OF QUARKS AND LEPTONS
- 30 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Modern Physics Letters A
- Vol. 20 (26) , 1953-1959
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732305018293
Abstract
Quarks come in three colors and have electric charges in multiples of one-third. There are also three families of quarks and leptons. Though the first two properties can be understood in terms of unification symmetries such as SU(5), SO(10), or E6, why should there only be three families remains a mystery. We propose how all three properties involving the number three are connected in a fivefold application of the gauge symmetry SU(3).Keywords
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