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Idea

While in the standard model of particle physics all hadrons and mesons are bound states of quarks, the quarks themselves, together with the leptons, are assumed to be “elementary” particles, hence not themselves bound states of other particles.

While this does fit very well with current experimental observation, one may speculate if at a higher energy scale quarks and/or leptons are themselves bound states of more fundamental particles. These hypothetical more fundamental particles are then generically called preons.

field (physics)

standard model of particle physics

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

hadron (bound states of the above quarks)

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

Exotica

auxiliary fields

References

A survey of the standard story is in

A proposal for an embedding of preon models into string theory is in

• Noriaki Kitazawa, Dynamical Generation of Yukawa Couplings in Intersecting D-brane Models, JHEP 0411 (2004) 044 (arXiv:hep-th/0409146)

Created on September 3, 2013 13:27:23 by Urs Schreiber (89.204.138.125)