Weyl Spinors with Proto-charges: A Substructure Model for Elementary Particles
We present a conceptual overview of a new substructure model of elementary particles, motivated in part by the Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula. In this approach, Weyl spinors endowed with proto-charges generate all known elementary fermions via their conjugate pairs, while bosons arise naturally as composites. The model predicts a new class of massive neutral bosons that serve as dark matter candidates, accounts for the existence of three generations of fermions, and reproduces the SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) symmetry as a low-energy limit. Elementary particles acquire effective masses from internal binding energy, eliminating the need for ad hoc Yukawa couplings. Neutrinos emerge only in left-handed states, gain mass through their substructure rather than chirality mixing. From the simple proposition that elementary particles are Weyl spinors with proto-charges emerges a coherent and comprehensive picture of elementary particles and fields. Experimental implications of the model includes: no proton decay, absence of sterile neutrinos, absence of Majorana neutrinos, and a possible detection of new massive neutral bosons as dark matter.