Is a Unified Lepton Field Possible?

jostpuur · Apr 16, 2009

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?

Vanadium 50 · Apr 16, 2009

Why don't you have deexitations of the field like [itex]\mu \rightarrow e \gamma[/itex]?

jostpuur · Apr 17, 2009

The possible ways of decaying depend on the couplings to the other fields anyway.

arivero · Apr 17, 2009

jostpuur said:

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?

Historically it has been reasonable, but you expect then a whole tower of excitations. There is some literature, starting from Dirac membrane theory.

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