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The Nakano-Nishijima-Gell-Mann Formula From Discrete Galois Fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-09-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The well known Nakano-Nishijima-Gell-Mann (NNG) formula relates certain quantum numbers of elementary particles to their charge number. This equation, which phenomenologically introduces the quantum numbers IzI_z (isospin), SS (strangeness), etc., is constructed using group theory with real numbers R\mathbb{R}. But, using a discrete Galois field Fp\mathbb{F}_p instead of R\mathbb{R} and assuring the fundamental invariance laws such as unitarity, Lorentz invariance, and gauge invariance, we derive the NNG formula deductively from Meson (two quarks) and Baryon (three quarks) representations in a unified way. Moreover, we show that quark confinement ascribes to the inevitable fractionality caused by coprimeness between half-integer (1/2) of isospin and number of composite particles (e.g. three).

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@article{arxiv.2008.06859,
  title  = {The Nakano-Nishijima-Gell-Mann Formula From Discrete Galois Fields},
  author = {Keiji Nakatsugawa and Motoo Ohaga and Toshiyuki Fujii and Toyoki Matsuyama and Satoshi Tanda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06859},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables