Quark statistics and octonions
Abstract
It is suggested that quark fields could be regarded as transverse octonionic fields. The resulting scheme unifies the existing three-triplet quark models within an "exceptional" paraquark scheme. We give a new reason for the observability of singlet states of the exact SU(3) group of three-triplet quark models and the nonobservability of quarks and diquarks.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.9.3387
- Bibcode:
- 1974PhRvD...9.3387G