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Published November 10, 1975 | public
Journal Article

Vectorlike Weak Currents and New Elementary Fermions

Abstract

Recent experimental discoveries encourage speculation that there may be more than four "flavors" of tricolored quarks and/or new flavors of leptons. A vectorlike gauge theory of the weak, electromagnetic, and associated neutral current interactions is then an attractive possibility. We present as an illustrative example a minimal theory based on six quark flavors and six lepton flavors and on the group SU2 × U1 (presumably a subgroup of a larger gauge group).

Additional Information

© 1975 Elsevier. Received 15 September 1975. Work supported in part by the Energy Research and Development Administration under contract AT(1-1)-68. We would like to thank B. Barish, S. Frautschi, M. Perl, and F. Sciulli for interesting discussions. Two of us would like to acknowledge the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics and the great value of conversations with our colleagues there, including W.A. Bardcen, R.M. Barnett, M.A.B. Bég, T.P. Cheng, E. Golowich, A. Halprin, B.R. Holstein, R. Kingsley, P. MnNamee, S.P. Rosen, K. Sebastian, F. Wilczek, A. Zee, and others too numerous to mention.

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