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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: C. Furey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-03-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315000337