| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 60, Number 2, October 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 188 - 194 | |
| Section | The physics of elementary particles and fields | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00337-8 | |
| Published online | 01 October 2002 | |
Preon trinity —A schematic model of leptons, quarks and heavy vector bosons
1
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, FR-63177 Aubière, France
2
Department of Physics, Luleå University of Technology - SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
Received:
19
June
2002
Accepted:
26
July
2002
Quarks, leptons and heavy vector bosons are suggested to be
composed of stable spin-
preons, existing in three
flavours, combined according to simple rules. Straightforward
consequences of an 
preon-flavour symmetry are the
conservation of three lepton numbers, oscillations and decays
between some neutrinos, and the mixing of the d and s quarks,
as well as of the vector fields W0 and B0. We find a
relation between the Cabibbo and Weinberg mixing angles, and
predict new (heavy) leptons, quarks and vector bosons, some of
which might be observable at the Fermilab Tevatron and the future
CERN LHC. A heavy neutrino might even be visible in existing data
from the CERN LEP facility.
PACS: 12.15.Ff – Quark and lepton masses and mixing / 12.60.Rc – Composite models / 14.60.St – Non-standard-model neutrinos, right-handed neutrinos, etc
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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