Hyperquarks and generation number

TL;DR

This paper proposes a preon model where hyperquarks are essential fermionic bound states that ensure anomaly cancellation, linking the number of fermion generations to the number of colors and hypercolors.

Contribution

It introduces hyperquarks as necessary entities in a preon model to satisfy anomaly constraints, connecting generation number with color and hypercolor counts.

Findings

Hyperquarks are predicted as fundamental bound states.

The model links the number of generations to color and hypercolor.

Hyperquarks are necessary for anomaly cancellation.

Abstract

In a model in which quarks and leptons are built up from two spin 1/2 preons as fundamental entities, a new class of fermionic bound states (hyperquarks) arises. It turns out that these hyperquarks are necessary to fulfill the 't Hooft anomaly constraint, which then links the number of fermionic generations to the number of colors and hypercolors.