Sunday, May 10, 2015

quantum mechanics - References on the non-compositeness of the known elementary particles


What paper(s) or theory(s) describe or prove that the elementary particles that we have determined today cannot be made up of smaller more fundamental particles?



Answer



One of the questions under investigation in the data being gathered at LHC is the search for compositeness of quarks and leptons. They gave limits for quark compositeness from the data of 2010.


So the answer is, it is an open question under investigation, though not popular with the theorists.


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