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Leptons

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Here is a summary of the various particles used in EthnoPhysics which might be described as lightweight. Or to be more exact, they all have a non-zero lepton number. All leptons are objectified from colorful visual sensations.

Leptonic Seeds

Particles reified from simple chromatic sensations are called leptonic seeds. There are four types of these seeds symbolized as E, G, M and A. Yellow and blue are represented by electronic seeds E and G. Whereas the muonic seeds M and A are objectified from green and red colors. Click on any of the following icons for more detail.

Class

Seeds

electronic seeds

An icon for a seed. An icon for a seed.

muonic seeds

An icon for a seed. An icon for a seed.

leptonic seeds

An icon for a seed. An icon for a seed. An icon for a seed. An icon for a seed.

Leptonic Quarks

Quarks formed from leptonic seeds are called leptonic quarks. There are eight of them.  The electric quarksAn icon for a negative quark. and An icon for a negative quark.. The galvanic quarks;  An icon for a positive quark. and An icon for a positive quark.. The magnetic quarksAn icon for a northern quark. and An icon for a northern quark.. And finally the amperic quarksQuarks defined from southern seeds are shown in this iconic image. and Quarks defined from red sensations are represented by this icon..  Click on any of these icons for more detail.  When considered in pairs, the electric and galvanic quarks are collectively referred to as electronic quarks.  Whereas the magnetic and amperic quarks are jointly called muonic quarks.

Particles containing leptonic-quarks are mathematically described by two numbers specified from their quark coefficients  \Delta n . The electronic lepton-number is

L_{e} \equiv \dfrac{ \, \Delta n^{\mathsf{G}} - \Delta n^{\mathsf{E}} }{8}

And the muonic lepton-number is defined by

L_{\mu} \equiv \dfrac{ \, \Delta n^{\mathsf{M}} - \Delta n^{\mathsf{A}} }{8}

Leptonic Field-Quanta

Vaguely specified collections of leptonic-quarks are generically called electromagnetic fields. Sets that feature electronic-quarks may be called electric fields. And collections formed from muonic-quarks are often called magnetic fields. Some more exactly defined clusters of leptonic-quarks are detailed in the following links.

Neutrinos

There are three types of neutrinos. They are defined below in terms of the leptonic field-quanta that they contain. Neutrino rotation is due to the inclusion of a roton \textsf{\ding{115}} \hspace{1px} . And the handedness of a neutrino comes from a stereoisomer noted as S.

\nu_{\mathit{e}} \, \equiv { \textsf{\ding{115}}_{\mathit{e}} \hspace{2px} ,S e }

\nu_{\mu} \, \equiv {\textsf{\ding{115}}_{\mu} \hspace{2px} ,S μ }

\nu_{\tau} \, \equiv { \textsf{\ding{115}}_{\tau} \hspace{2px} ,S}

There is a lot more to say about neutrinos, so here is a link to their main article.

Neutrinos are defined from electromagnetic field-quanta. Their mass and handedness are analyzed. Other possible neutrinos are assessed.

Charged Leptons

Leptons are represented by this collage of seed icons.

Here are some quark models of charged leptons. All charged leptons are built-up around the heart of familial seeds shown on the left. Particles with a different angular momentum or charge are modeled by including various quarks around this common kernel. Then excited states are obtained by adding even more quarks. The charged leptons may share more quarks in addition to the familial pattern. But this nugget is the minimum necessary to distinguish the charged leptons from other particle families.  Nuclear particles are classified on this basis. EthnoPhysics analyzes the mechanics of charged leptons using chains of events  noted by \Psi = ( \mathsf{\Omega}_{1}, \, \mathsf{\Omega}_{2}, \, \mathsf{\Omega}_{3} \; \ldots \; ) where each repeated cycle \mathsf{\Omega} is composed of the following quarks.

The foregoing quark models completely specify the quantum numbers of leptons. The charge, angular momentum, baryon-number, lepton-number and strangeness are all correct. These models also produce accurate calculated values for the lifetime, width and mass. Results that fall outside of experimental uncertainty are noted with an X in all tables. There are just a handful of these errors from among hundreds of particles.

Lepton Cores

Some highly excited states contain so many quarks that it may be difficult to see how the models work. So to view the underlying pattern, we ignore most of the quark/anti-quark pairs. The \mathsf{q \overline{q}} pairs are needed for stability. But these field quarks obscure the minimum number of quarks required to identify a particle and account for its mass.  So we remove them and the remaining core quarks are shown in the table below.

Fixing attention on the core shows more clearly how excited leptons are built-up over blocks of the same baryonic quarks. The mass depends on  \Delta n not  n. So  m is unchanged by any variation in the field of \mathsf{q \overline{q}} pairs. A particle’s rest mass is completely determined by its core quarks.

Charged leptons may also be modeled by the union of a mesonic charge , with a leptonic roton \textsf{\ding{115}} \, . Lepton cores can be expressed in terms of field-quanta as

\textsf{e}^{-}} ={,\textsf{\ding{115}}_{\mathsf{E}}}

\mu^{-}} ={,\textsf{\ding{115}}_{\textsf{M}}}

\tau^{+}} ={,\textsf{\ding{115}}_{\textsf{T}}}

There is much more to say about the charged leptons. So here are links to the main articles about these particles.

A summary of various models of the electron, including discussion of its charge and rotation.

This is the main article about muons.

This is the main article about tauons.