Sunday, December 12, 2021

Are scalar lepto-quarks [if they exist] evidence for (revised) string theory?


In the octonionic theory, prior to the Left-Right symmetry breaking [=EW symmetry breaking] mass and electric charge are not defined. Both these are emergent concepts. The fundamental entities from which quarks and leptons emerge are lepto-quarks, and although spin angular momentum can be defined from the matrix-valued Lagrangian dynamics, spin is not quantised in the pre-stage. Only a length scale is associated with a lepto-quark, and this is order unity in Planck length units.
It might then be plausible to identify these lepto-quark states as the fundamental extended objects of the octonionic theory, and one way to think of the octonionic theory is as a revised string theory. If current experiments are pointing to violation of Lepton Flavour Universality, and if this violation is due to the existence of lepto-quark states, then the BSM physics we are seeing might be evidence for octonionic theory/string theory. The Planck scale is reset to the electro-weak scale by the inflationary cosmological expansion just after the big bang.

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