On the origin of families of quarks and leptons - Predictions for four families

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bregar, G ^a   Breskvar, M ^a   Lukman, D ^a   Borštnik, N S Mankoč ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; KETONES;

CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS; GAUGE FIELDS; TWO TYPES; YUKAWA COUPLINGS;

COUPLINGS;

EID: 51149117821     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/9/093002     Document Type: Article

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