Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Quarks and leptons, the fundamental building blocks of the subatomic world, manifest in three families - replicas with identical quantum numbers that differ only in their masses. After revisiting the key milestones that led to the discovery of this peculiar structure, a non-technical overview is presented of the main attempts to explain its origin and trace it back to an as-yet-unknown fundamental principle.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Feruglio, Ferruccio
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6929582082
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