Electric charge quantization in a chiral bilepton gauge model

1998/03/20 by C. A. de S. Pires, C. A de S. Pires, O. P. Ravinez +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.58.035008

published as Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 035008; Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 35008 · 12 pages, latex file, uses revtex

arxiv created 1998/03/20 · openalex publication_date 1998/07/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

In the context of the standard model the quantization of the electric charge occurs only family by family. When we consider the three families together with massless neutrinos the electric charge is not quantized any more. Here we show that a chiral bilepton gauge model based on the gauge group SU(3)_C\ensuremath\bigotimesSU(3)_L\ensuremath\bigotimesU(1)_N explains the quantization of the electric charge when we take into account the three families of fermions. This result does not depend on the neutrino masses. Charge quantization occurs whether the neutrinos are massless or Dirac or Majorana massive fields.

Citations

• NEW PHYSICS FROM ELECTRIC CHARGE QUANTIZATION?
• Axial-Vector Vertex in Spinor Electrodynamics

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