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Published September 27, 2018 | Version v9
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Order in the particle zoo

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The standard model of physics classifies particles into elementary leptons and hadrons composed of quarks. In this article the existence of an alternate ordering principle will be demonstrated giving particle energies to be quantized as a function of the fine-structure constant, α. The quantization can be derived using an appropriate wave function that acts as a probability amplitude on the electric field. The value of α itself can be approximated numerically by the gamma functions of the integrals for calculating particle energy.

The model may be used to calculate other particle properties as well, in particular particle interaction, giving quantitative terms for strong, Coulomb and gravitational force.

One input parameter derived from the electron mass is required for the calculations.

 

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