Electron generation of leptons and hadrons with reciprocal
alpha-quantized lifetimes and masses
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by
Malcolm H. Mac Gregor
2005
Abstract
Hadron elementary particle measurements have long revealed an
alpha-dependence in the long-lived threshold-state lifetimes, together with an
alpha-related mass structure, where alpha ~ 1/137 is the fine structure
constant. A detailed lifetime analysis shows that of the 156 particles with
well-determined lifetimes, the 120 shortest lifetimes have a continuum of
values, but the 36 longer lifetimes occur in alpha-spaced groups which are
sorted into s, c, b quark flavors. Guided by these lifetime results, we deduce
an alpha-generated set of universal mass quanta, based on the electron ground
state, which apply to both leptons and hadrons. A low-mass "threshold-state
octet" of particles - muon, proton, tau, pion, eta, eta prime, kaon, phi meson
- is reproduced to an average mass accuracy of 0.4%, with no adjustable
parameters except a small hadronic binding energy. Without the lepton states,
the hadron mass pattern is difficult to ascertain.
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