SU(3) x U(1) theory of weak-electromagnetic interactions with charged-boson mixing

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979 · Phys. Rev., D; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.19.296· OSTI ID:6466134

Singer, M

We propose an SU(3) x U(1) gauge theory of weak-electromagnetic interactions in which the charged bosons mix with each other. The model naturally ensures e-..mu.. and quark-lepton universality in couplings, and the charged-boson mixing permits an equal number of leptons and quark flavors. There are no new stable leptons. All the fermions are placed in triplets and singlets and the theory is vectorlike and hence free of anomalies. In addition one of the charged bosons can have a mass less than 43 GeV. Discrete symmetries and specific choices for Higgs fields are postulated to obtain the appropriate boson and fermion masses. Calculations for the decay of the tau particle, which is described as a heavy electron, are given. Multimuon events are discussed as are neutrino neutral currents. Calculations are also given testing asymmetries in e-hadron scattering due to weak electron neutral currents along with other phenomenology of the model.

• Research Organization: International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
• OSTI ID: 6466134
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev., D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev., D; (United States) Vol. 19:1; ISSN PRVDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
COMPOSITE MODELS
COUPLING
CURRENTS
DECAY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
HEAVY LEPTONS
HIGGS MODEL
INTERACTIONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONIC DECAY
LEPTONS
LIE GROUPS
MAGNETIC MOMENTS
MASS FORMULAE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MULTIPLE PRODUCTION
MUONS
NEUTRAL CURRENTS
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
P INVARIANCE
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUARK MODEL
SU GROUPS
SU-3 GROUPS
SYMMETRY GROUPS
TAU PARTICLES
U GROUPS
U-1 GROUPS
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
WEAK INTERACTIONS
WEAK NEUTRAL CURRENTS
WEAK PARTICLE DECAY