Possibility of a lepton field

[jostpuur]

Main Question or Discussion Point

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]

Why don't you have deexitations of the field like $\mu \rightarrow e \gamma$?

 

[jostpuur]

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

 

[arivero]

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.