Charge quantization from a number operator
We explain how an unexpected algebraic structure, the division algebras, can be seen to underlie a generation of quarks and leptons. From this new vantage point, electrons and quarks are simply excitations from the neutrino, which formally plays the role of a vacuum state. Using the ladder operators...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-03-01
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Series: | Physics Letters B |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315000337 |