The weak force is responsible for the creation of matter during the “Big Bang” (apparently via the asymmetric decay of electrically neutral leptoquark-antileptoquark particle pairs), and for the subsequent creation, transformation, and destruction of single elementary particles – particles that do not exist in matter-antimatter pairs (seen as radioactivity, particle decay/transformation, fission). Elementary particles created today must be interchangeable with those created during the “Big Bang” with respect to all conserved parameters – mass, spin, charge, etc. Creating absolutely invariant single elementary particles any time or place is the conservation challenge presented to and surmounted by the weak force, requiring the elaborate mechanism of the Higgs boson and the Intermediate Vector Bosons (IVBs). The great mass of the IVBs recreates the original energy density and unified force symmetry state in which the elementary particle classes (leptons and quarks) were first created, while the Higgs boson “gauges” (scales and selects) the IVBs and unified force symmetry state (there are several) appropriate to the transformation at hand. It is the quantization of the Higgs boson and the IVBs (plus virtual particles drawn from the global “vacuum sea”) that ensures the invariance of the weak force transformation mechanism. The weak force charge is “identity” charge (AKA “number” or “flavor” charge), and is carried implicitly by all massive leptons (including leptoquarks) and explicitly by neutrinos.
- The “W” Intermediate Vector Boson and the Weak Force Mechanism (pdf file)
The “W” IVB and the Weak Force Mechanism (html file)
The “Higgs” Boson and the Weak Force IVBs: Part I
Identity Charge and the Weak Force
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Particles and the Spacetime Metric
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The weak force is responsible for the creation of matter during the “Big Bang” apparently via the asymmetric decay of electrically neutral leptoquark-antileptoquark particle pairs, and for the subsequent creation, transformation, and destruction of single elementary particles - particles that do not exist in matter-antimatter pairs (seen as radioactivity, particle decay/transformation, fission). Elementary particles created today must be interchangeable with those created during the “Big Bang” with respect to all conserved parameters – mass, spin, charge, etc. Creating absolutely invariant singleelementary particles any time or place is the conservation challenge presented to and surmounted by the weak force, requiring the elaborate mechanism of the Higgs boson and the Intermediate Vector Bosons (IVBs). The great mass of the IVBs recreates the original energy density and unified force symmetry state in which the elementary particle classes (leptons and quarks) were first created, while the Higgs boson “gauges” (scales and selects) the IVBs and unified force symmetry state (there are several) appropriate to the transformation at hand. It is the quantization of the Higgs boson and the IVBs (plus virtual particles drawn from the global “vacuum sea”) that ensures the invariance of the weak force transformation mechanism. The weak force charge is “identity” charge (AKA “number” or “flavor” charge), and is carried implicitly by all massive leptons (including leptoquarks) and explicitly by neutrinos.
Although this is a somewhat technical paper (but without mathematics), there should be much of interest in the mechanism of the “W” particle for the general reader, since in the action of the IVBs, we glimpse the fearful asymmetry of creation.
The first version of this paper was written in April 1983, submitted to two physics journals in 1985 (rejected by both), and submitted to the Archives of Physics on 9 Aug. 2000 (with several subsequent updates). Unlike my other papers which are mainly of theoretical or philosophical interest, this paper is also potentially of significant technical utility, since it treats the reaction pathways of nuclear transformations.
The “W” is one of several “Intermediate Vector Bosons” (“IVBs”) of the weak force (see: “The Part