Some ideas on composite quarks and leptons
N. Srednicki · AIP conference proceedings · 1981
I want to explore in very general terms the possibility that quarks and leptons are actually composite particles. The reason for asking this question is that if they are indeed composite particles, one can introduce new kinds of mass generation mechanisms for the quarks and leptons. This question is a subset of technicolor questions; in technicolor theories, we want to replace the standard Higgs sector of weak interactions by gauge fields and fermions. That means we can’t give masses to the ordinary quarks and leptons by the usual Higgs mechanism and so we have to find other mechanisms. I will talk about one possible mechanism that involves compositeness of quarks and leptons. Therefore, we need a theory that will give us composite fermions.