Phys. Rev. D 10, 275–289 (1974)Lepton number as the fourth "color"See Also: Erratum Received 25 February 1974; published in the issue dated 1 July 1974 Universal strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions of leptons and hadrons are generated by gauging a non-Abelian renormalizable anomaly-free subgroup of the fundamental symmetry structure SU(4)L×SU(4)R×SU(4′), which unites three quartets of "colored" baryonic quarks and the quartet of known leptons into 16-folds of chiral fermionic multiplets, with lepton number treated as the fourth "color" quantum number. Experimental consequences of this scheme are discussed. These include (1) the emergence and effects of exotic gauge mesons carrying both baryonic as well as leptonic quantum numbers, particularly in semileptonic processes, (2) the manifestation of anomalous strong interactions among leptonic and semileptonic processes at high energies, (3) the independent possibility of baryon-lepton number violation in quark and proton decays, and (4) the occurrence of (V+A) weak-current effects. © 1974 The American Physical Society URL:
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See AlsoComment: G. Senjanovic and R. N. Mohapatra, Exact left-right symmetry and spontaneous violation of parity, Phys. Rev. D 12, 1502 (1975). Erratum: Jogesh C. Pati and Abdus Salam, Erratum: Lepton number as the fourth "color", Phys. Rev. D 11, 703 (1975). |
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