Lepton Definition and 59 Threads

Hello everyone, I would like to ask for opinions/expertises about the way of classifying quarks and leptons using linear canonical transformations spin representation as explainedin this link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_canonical_transformation Are the statements true ? Please find...

Why is generally the decay of the W boson to tau lepton not taken in the calculations?

Experimental results tending to show lepton universality violations (i.e. a different probability for decays to tau leptons, muons, and electron-positron pairs respectively, mass-energy conservation permitting) are the most notable experimental anomalies from Standard Model predictions...

One of the Standard Model's rules is that charged leptons (i.e. the electron, muon and tau lepton) are identical to each other in their properties except for their masses (and that their anti-particles are identical to them except for a charge-parity flip). But, in two kinds of rare...

The latest tau lepton mass measurement, from Belle II is 1777.28 ± 0.75 (stat.) ± 0.33 (sys.) MeV/c^2. The combined error is ± 0.82 MeV/c^2 (which is 0.38 sigma greater the the Koide's rule prediction). This is consistent at a one sigma level with the current Particle Data Group world average...

If neutrinos are majorana particles does this mean that lepton number is not conserved in particle reactions? And I only noticed neutrinos are only produced when the decay of a particle to some other particles is carried by the W bosons ( weak interaction ). Is it possible the weak interaction...

I just came across a 2016 paper [1] that claims to have computed reasonably accurate masses for hadrons using what it calls a "rotating lepton model" and "the relativistic Newton equation". An earlier 2001 paper by two of the same authors [2] appears to be the first introduction of the general...

Hi everyone, I have to write a paper (like an essay) where I have to discuss the hints for lepton flavor violation (LFV) in B-hadron decays from LHCb, BaBar, Belle experiments. I have found that there are (rare) B-decays, mostly B-mesons, forbidden in the SM that signal flavor lepton violation...

I am considerably confused about conservation laws like lepton number (L), baryon number (B) and comparable. Unlike the conservation laws for energy, momentum, angular momentum and electric charge, the conservations of L and B are not rigorously covered in textbooks. So my questions -...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I worked out that the baryon number of X is 0 and the lepton number is +1 which means x is a lepton. However, when I work out the charge of X, do I add W+ to the left hand side or right hand side of the equation? [/B]

We all think that electric current is the electrons flow without mass transfer in conductor, i.e. charged lepton flow. But charged baryons flow can also deemed as "electric" current, e.g. ionic current. My question is that charged baryons flow can induce magnetic field? Same amperes, then same B...

Even with the charge screening effect it is exact. Is there an explanation in the standard model? Can the fact there are 3 families of particles be involved?

in the event violation of lepton universality is measured and established at 5-sigma level what are some theories that extend the standard model that would explain violation of lepton universality, while consistent in other SM measurements? how would violation of lepton universality impact...

What are the observational constraints on the net lepton number of universe?

We know lepton conservation law, that means multiple neutrinos can not be consolidate to big single neutrino. But photon is boson not lepton, no need of conservation, does that mean it is possible to combine or fuse a bunch of photons into ONE big photon, or say, more energetic photon, i.e...

To determine the mass of charged leptons, we rotate such that the matrix of yukawa couplings (which gives the mass matrix after EWSB) is diagonal. We also call this flavour basis for neutrinos, because the flavoured neutrinos couple directly to the correspondong flavoured lepton in weak charged...

There seems to be many exotic species of lepton, like the muon neutrino and the tao neutrino. Is there any evidence that these species and other exotic particles are relevant to the existence of life. If they didn't exist would that have the terrible consequences that is implied by some for the...

Hello everyone, I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm very new in self studying particle physics. May I ask when we associate a charge (i.e. positive or negative) to quark and lepton, is it only because of their attraction or repulsion toward each other? in other words, is it just to name one...

Hi, I am struggling with a question where they want me to determine whether or not three different decay are allowed. From what I have understood all decays must follow a set of conservation law. These laws are: 1 Conservation of Baryon number 2 Conservation of Lepton number 3 Conservation of...

Homework Statement Branching ratios of tau lepton decay: hadrons 66% muon 17% electron 17% Use your knowledge of the decay of W bosons to justify these rates. Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution [/B] The W+ boson can decay to any combination of quarks with +1 charge, but the CKM...

I have a left-handed ##SU(2)## lepton doublet: ## \ell_L = \begin{pmatrix} \psi_{\nu,L} \\ \psi_{e,L} \end{pmatrix}. ## I want to know its transformation properties under conjugation and similar 'basic' transformations: ##\ell^{\dagger}_L, \bar{\ell}_L, \ell^c_L, \bar{\ell}^c_L## and the general...

Well I'm in grade 11 and for an investigation I decided I'd observe the behavior of protons once the neutrons and electrons are removed from the atom. Specifically I want to observe how the acceleration at which the protons move apart from each other varies with the mass of the atom (i.e. #...

Lepton Universality and Pauli Exclusion Put in a possibly oversimplified way, lepton universality says that electrons, muons, and taus all behave in the same way except for mass effects. The question is “Does this apply to Pauli exclusion?” Due to the Pauli exclusion principle, only two...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09158 Is this a legitimite thing? I've never heard of 4th color charge or quark-lepton unification.

Is an electron anti neutrino and a positron neutrino the same thing?

Hi, I am currently an undergraduate student and I am writing my undergraduate research paper right now. The thesis is about searching for heavy Majorana type neutrinos. While writing the paper, I really need some 'right word' but I can't find it so let me explain it here, and it would be very...

Homework Statement (a) Explain spin and parity of mesons (b) State their quark content (c) Draw a feynman diagram of J/psi decay (d) Why doesn't ##\chi## undergo leptonic decay? (e) What is the minimum centre of mass? [/B] Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution Part(a)[/B] Spin is...

Homework Statement [/B] (a) Explain lepton universality. (b) Explain why decay mode is forbidden and find hadronic branching ratios. (c) Find the lifetime of tau lepton. (d) What tau decay mode would be suitable? (e) Find the precision. (f) How do you improve the results? (g) Why is it much...

If I understand correctly, conservation of baryon and lepton numbers imply that quarks and leptons are "basic" i.e. non-interchangeable particles? What happens when one such particle is annihilated, can the energy produced be used to "generate" the other type, or do some additional particles...

I have a question about the interaction between photons and leptons prior to recombination I understand that once the threshold temperature for electrons was reached early in the universe' history, the vast majority of the leptons and antileptons annihiliated into photons. Except for...

I'd just like to clarify something I read on Wikipedia: "The branching ratio of the common purely leptonic tau decays are: 17.82% for decay into a tau neutrino, electron and electron antineutrino; 17.39% for decay into a tau neutrino, muon and muon antineutrino. The similarity...

I probably knew the textbook answer to this at one time, but I don't recall. Feynman states in the beginning of Vol II of the FLP that electrons don't collide into the nucleus due to the uncertainty principle. But an electron positron pair will mutually annihilate. I suspect the answer has...

Does anyone have any good introduction to theories of the quark and lepton mass matrices? Theories like textures and horizontal symmetry. My understanding of research into textures is that it often involves trying to make zero as many entries as possible in the mass matrices. Is that a fair...

Homework Statement Draw the lowest-order Feynman diagram for the decay: K^+ \rightarrow l^+\nu_l Homework Equations Kaon structure is given as u\bar{s} The Attempt at a Solution So I know that you can get a lepton and an associated neutrino from a W decay, where the strange...

I was wondering if Higgs theory offers an explanation for why the Koide formula gives such precise masses for the leptons? I would assume that any theory of mass would be able to predict the masses of particles, especially for ones where precise relations have been found between them like the...

Hi all, I am just reading Srednicki, chapter 88: The Standard Model: Lepton Sector and I'm not sure if I really understand it. There are left-handed Weyl fields l, \overline{e}, \varphi in the (SU(2), U(1)) representations (2, -1/2), (1,1), (2, -1/2) Now there is also a...

Are there any W^\pm or Z^0 interactions that change lepton flavor? For example, turn an electron into a muon or vice versa? Thanks!

Homework Statement Compare the probabilities for the following processes to happen: 1. e^+ + e^- \to \nu_\mu + \bar{\nu}_\mu 2. e^+ + e^- \to \nu_\mu + \bar{\nu}_e 3. e^+ + e^- \to \nu_e + \bar{\nu}_e Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution I really have no idea...

Hi guys, Quick question: Why is the branching ratio of Z bosons into a lepton-antilepton pair equal for all leptons? Is it not dependent on mass? Thanks DA

"Electroweak stars: how nature may capitalize on the standard model's ultimate fuel," De-Chang Dai, Arthur Lue, Glenn Starkman, Dejan Stojkovic, http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0520 Pretty far out, and I'm not sure I believe it. One thing that surprises me is that they claim the standard model has...

Hello there! May I ask: I am learning about the conservation of lepton number. I understand that the lepton number is composed of different sorts of lepton number, L_{\mu} and L_{\tau} and L_{e}. And these are conserved in all interactions. I am confused however about the...

I would like to ask what is mean by conservation of lepton and baryon? Does this imply conservation of mass? In addition, does this theory contradicts mass-energy conversion E=mc2?

Is it reasonable to suggest the possibility, that there could be a one field, whose first excitations would be the electrons, second the myons, and third the taus?

Is the number of lepton generations in string theory restricted to 3? Or is this "landscape dependent"? I don't really see what could limit the number of eigenmodes on a continuous object like the string.

Do we have prediction of Lepton mass (Electron, muon, tau) from any “Theory of everything” ? PS The string theory is here for decades. If string theory is truly a “theory of everything”, the Lepton mass should be predicted all ready. what is the status to this issue ?

Homework Statement In some theory the electron neutrinos and the muon neutrinos mix like this: \mathcal{L}_{m} &= -\frac{1}{2}m\left(\overline{ \nu^{C}_{\mu\text{R}} }\nu_{\text{eL}} + \overline{ \nu^{C}_{\text{eR}} }\nu_{\mu\text{L}}\right) + \text{h.c.} Show that there exists a...

I have a question that asks me to calculate the lepton current for the decay of a tau lepton into the tau neutrino and a pion. It asks me to work in the rest frame of the tau lepton, taking the spin to be fully polarized in the +z direction. The lepton current is given by: j^{u} =...

I was looking at this event display from CDF on their discovery of ZZ production. Why is lepton 1 having an ambiguity of either an electron or muon ? http://fcdfwww.fnal.gov/physics/ewk/2007/ZZ/evd/r211311_e233113.html

lepton beta decay when m near m_W? Has anybody seen somewhere, article or textbook or website, the calculation of beta decay of a charged lepton in the generic case, when mass is neither a lot smaller nor a lot greater than the mass of the W? It should be some result interpolating between the...

Homework Statement "Discuss the evidence for the law of conservation of lepton generation number. What is the evidence that neutrinos of different generations are distinct?" [8 marks] Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution I understand the concept of lepton generation...