Review of the Microscopic Approach to the Higgs Mechanism and to Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixings

TL;DR

This review discusses the tetron model, a microscopic approach proposing an internal isospin space that aims to explain electroweak phenomena, gravity, cosmology, and strong interactions, offering a unified perspective on elementary particles.

Contribution

It critically re-examines the tetron model, highlighting its potential to unify various physical phenomena through an internal isospin space framework.

Findings

The tetron model describes electroweak phenomena.

It offers modifications to gravity and cosmology theories.

Provides insights into the nature of strong interactions.

Abstract

This review summarizes the results of a series of recent papers, where a microscopic model underlying the physics of elementary particles has been proposed. The 'tetron model' relies on the existence of an internal isospin space, in which an independent physical dynamics takes place. This idea is critically re-considered in the present work. As becomes evident in the course of discussion, the model not only describes electroweak phenomena but also modifies our understanding of other physical topics, like gravity, the big bang cosmology and the nature of the strong interactions.