Triplicity of Quarks and Leptons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
Quarks come in three colors and have electric charges in multiples of one-third. There are also three families of quarks and leptons. Whereas the first two properties can be understood in terms of unification symmetries such as SU(5), SO(10), or E_6, why there should only be three families remains a mystery. I propose how all three properties involving the number three are connected in a fivefold application of the gauge symmetry SU(3).
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0502024,
title = {Triplicity of Quarks and Leptons},
author = {Ernest Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0502024},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, including 2 figures