On a model of the electron and the other leptons

Abstract

The central idea for a model of the electron and the other leptons is presented. In this model, the electron and the charged leptons are coreless spiral electric field vortices derived from the Lituus spiral. The central region of the vortices is free of field. Such a vortex structure makes the lepton electric field self-supporting (no dependence on a central charge). The electric field configuration at large distances is the same for all charged leptons, assigning them the same charge. Their mass and stability would depend on their winding numbers. Some considerations are presented on a structure of the neutrinos and the massive gauge bosons. In this model, neutrinos turn out to be different from their corresponding antineutrinos (Dirac neutrinos). The above spiral structure could imply nonzero spin, and might thus explain the observed scarcity (or absence) of scalar elementary particles. In addition, it will mean that the heavier leptons and the massive gauge bosons decay through vortex fission; therefore the muon decay to an electron and a photon would not exist. It could also help to give some insight into some branching ratios in the massive gauge boson decays, which are presently determined only experimentally.