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Who ordered the muon. From families to communities

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I review the possibility that the underlying theory of weak interactions possesses a family symmetry, either global or local. The spontaneous symmetry breaking of this symmetry leads to important phenomenological implications: the existence of Goldstone bosons, the familons in the case of global symmetry and the existence of mirror fermions, in the case of local symmetry ( in the context of grand unification). Both alternatives will soon be tested. 13 refs

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
8 p.
Report number
BNL--36724

Conference

Title
20. Recontre de Moriond.
Dates
10-23 Mar 1985.
Place
Les Arcs (France).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
17011401
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
FERMIONS; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; MUONS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WEAK INTERACTIONS
Descriptors DEC
BASIC INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-850375--17.