Composite Leptons at the LHC
arXiv:1301.6335 · doi:10.1142/S0217732314500345
Abstract
In some models of electro-weak interactions the W and Z bosons are considered composites, made up of spin-one-half subconstituents. In these models a spin zero counterpart of the W and Z boson naturally appears, whose higher mass can be attributed to a particular type of hyperfine spin interaction among the various subconstituents. Recently it has been argued that the scalar state could be identified with the newly discovered Higgs (H) candidate. Here we use the known spin splitting between the W/Z and H states to infer, within the framework of a purely phenomenological model, the relative strength of the spin-spin interactions. The results are then applied to the lepton sector, and used to crudely estimate the relevant spin splitting between the two lowest states. Our calculations in many ways parallels what is done in the SU(6) quark model, where most of the spin splittings between the lowest lying baryon and meson states are reasonably well accounted for by a simple color hyperfine interaction, with constituent (color-dressed) quark masses.
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