CHART of INTERACTIONS

Combining of the strong and weak interactions

Dr. L. Gazdag

Six quarks, six leptons and four interactions only?


Today [in 1997] we know six quarks (six "quarkese") and six leptons, as fundamental particles, yet only four interactions. Quarks and leptons are fermions with half spins, while mediators of interactions are full spin bosons: photon, graviton, gluon, W+, W-, Zo bosons. It is also curious that photon, graviton, and gluon posses neither mass nor charge, while the three bosons mediating weak interactions do. More precisely, the two W bosons have charge as well as mass, while the Z boson has only mass. Six years ago basic interactions were described as in Table 1.

Table 1. 1991 Chart of interactions
Interaction Generating object Mediating particles
Name Mass (GeV) Charge Spin
Electromagnetic Charge Photon 0 0 1
Gravitational Mass Graviton 0 0 1
Strong Baryon charge pi+, pi-, pi0 0.14 +1, -1, 0 1
Weak Weak charge W+, W-, Zo 80 - 90 +1, -1, 0 1

This was later modified when it was discovered that the basic strong interaction is indeed the gluon interaction between the quarks and that nuclear forces mediated by the pi- mesons are merely forms of its outward appearance, a sort of QCD van der Waals force.

Let us modify therefore, the chart of interactions, and refine the divisions; separating again the electric and magnetic interactions, while carrying out the same for gravitation also. Accelerating mass creates gravitomagnetic field, from accelerating masses gravitomagnetic waves are separated. See Table 2:

Table 2. Proposed interim chart of interactions
Interaction Generating object Mediating particles
Name Mass (GeV) Charge Spin
Electric Charge, altering magnetic field Virtual photon (longitudinal) 0 0 1
Magnetic Moving charge, altering electric field Real photon (transversal) 0 0 1
Gravitational Mass, altering gravitomagnetic field Virtual graviton 0 0 1
Gravitomagnetic Moving mass, altering grav. field Real graviton 0 0 1
Strong Baryon charge Gluon 0 0 1
Weak Weak charge W +, W-, Zo 80 - 90 +1, -1, 0 1

It can be seen that the weak interaction "sticks out" of line somehow - it is "irregular" - yet we should also notice its analogy with the pi mesons. Let us consider weak interaction to be the magnetic equivalent of the strong interaction and harmony is restored. This way we now have six interactions, as many as there are known quarks and leptons. We will also have six different mediating bosons if transversal and longitudinal components are separated. It is no problem here that electromagnetic and weak interactions are now unified under the name of electron-weak interaction, since all interactions will be unified sooner or later. Still, the weak interaction can be brought into a closer relationship with the strong one, closer than with the electromagnetic interaction. Thus, our final chart of the interactions is in Table 3:

Table 3. Final chart of interactions
Interaction Generating object Mediating particles
Name Mass (GeV) Charge Spin
Electric Charge, altering magnetic field Virtual photon (longitudinal) 0 0 1
Magnetic Moving charge, altering electric field Real photon (transversal) 0 0 1
Gravitational Mass, altering gravitomagnetic field Virtual graviton (longitudinal) 0 0 1
Gravitomagnetic Moving mass, altering grav. field Real graviton (transversal) 0 0 1
Strong Baryon charge, altering weak force field Virtual gluon (longitudinal) 0 0 1
Weak (strong magnetic) Moving baryon charge, altering baryon field Real gluon (transversal) 0 0 1

My Home : Beyond Relativity