Calculation of masses of charged leptons of different generations in gauge field theory

Abstract

In this study the authors calculate the masses of the charge leptons of different generations (the electron, muon, and tau-lepton) with the framework of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions. They assume that the bare masses of the charge leptons are nonzero and the bare masses of the neutral leptons (i.e., the neutrinos) are equal to zero. The total (experimental) mass of a charge lepton is due to its interaction with the vacua of the electromagnetic, W-boson, and Z-boson fields. The contribution of these vacua to the mass of the charged lepton is equivalent to the contribution from the vacuum of a certain equivalent fictitious field, whose quanta they will call fictitions. The fictition is as an auxiliary fictitious particle, which is introduced to realize the calculational apparatus that they introduce. They assume that the fictition is a pseudoscalar particle with a mass M/sub p/ = ..mu..hc and with a zero spin and a zero electric charge