Electric Charge as a Vector Quantity
| dc.creator | Fitzpatrick, Gerald L. | |
| dc.date | 2000-11-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:45:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:45:07Z | |
| dc.description | Starting with the premise that the electric charge associated with fundamental fermions (quarks and leptons) can, under certain circumstances, be appropriately represented as a real \emph{internal} 2-vector, the mathematical ``machinery'' implicit in the associated internal 2-space is shown to apply to \emph{all} fundamental fermions. In particular, it is shown that \emph{flavor eigenstates}, \emph{flavor doublets} and \emph{families} of fundamental fermions can all be represented in the 2-space, and that such things as internal \emph{colors}, \emph{family replication}, and the observed \emph{number} (three) of families, are more-or-less implicit in the new 2-space description. Moreover, the model predicts that, unlike the case in the standard model, particles such as the $u$, $c$ and $t$ quarks are characterized by significant internal (topological and other) differences. Similar differences may help explain recent observations of (nearly) maximal $ν_μ-ν_τ$ mixing. | |
| dc.description | 21 pages, no figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0011073 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0011073 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/83890 | |
| dc.subject | General Physics | |
| dc.title | Electric Charge as a Vector Quantity | |
| dc.type | text |