Weinberg Angle and Integer Electric Charges of Quarks

2013/08/22 by M.A. Faessler, Martin A. Faessler, Faessler, Martin A. · 1 citation
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.5900

6 pages, 1 table, 1 figure

arxiv created 2013/08/22 · arxiv updated 2013/08/28

Abstract

Orthogonality between photon and Z boson involves the Weinberg angle and a scheme for assignments of electric charge and weak isospin to leptons and quarks coupling to photon and Z. The Han-Nambu scheme, with integer electric charges for quarks, satisfies photon-Z orthogonality with sin²(theta_W)= 0.25 in leading order. Experimental results for photon-photon fusion into charm-anticharm and bottom-antibottom pairs provide further support for assigning integer electric charges to quarks.

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