2000/11/30 by Gerald L. Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick, Gerald L.
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0011073
21 pages, no figures
arxiv created 2000/11/30 · openalex publication_date 2000/11/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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 internal 2-vector, the mathematical ``machinery'' implicit in the associated internal 2-space is shown to apply to all fundamental fermions. In particular, it is shown that flavor eigenstates, flavor doublets and families of fundamental fermions can all be represented in the 2-space, and that such things as internal colors, family replication, and the observed 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 νμ-ντ mixing.