Seven-Dimensional Charge Space
- 1 February 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 117 (3) , 873-886
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.117.873
Abstract
Some implications of a charge space of seven (rotational) dimensions are considered for (I) particle classification, (II) strong interactions, and (III) weak interactions. The principal conclusions from this point of view are that (I) all particles except the photon and graviton can be incorporated in 7 dimensional charge space; lepton conservation must be abandoned, which automatically introduces parity nonconservation into decay; (II) the one boson, two fermion interaction is predominantly pseudovector in form and induces no mass differences; the mass difference arises from interference with a fundamental two boson, two fermion interaction of lower charge symmetry; the mass difference has an "intrinsic" basis and is not due entirely to strong interactions; (III) the weak universal Fermi interaction has signature -1 under time reversal; the strangeness change is associated with 256 independent (in principle) terms; the rule needs further qualification because I = T+U, where T and U are independent operators.
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