2002/01/21 by Andre Gsponer, Jean-Pierre Hurni
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
published as Hadronic J. 19 (1996) 367-373 · 8 pages, 1 table, 1 figure. PACS: 12.15.Ff, 11.10
arxiv created 2002/01/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Barut's formula for the mass of leptons is successfully extended to quarks. A very simple non-linear scalar field model explains both the N4 power law dependence of the mass, and the existence of a cut-off which limits the number of leptons to three and the number of quarks to five, suggesting that the mass of the sixth quark is of different origin.