An interpretation of the top-quark mass in terms of a proton mass doublet in general relativity

Summary

The recent experimental discovery of the «top quark» reveals it to have a mass of (199±20) GeV. The data is interpreted as a fractionally charged quark, within the Standard Model. This interpretation is consistent in the experimentation with the predictions of various channels of decay of the colliding particles $p\bar p \to t\bar t$, yielding as final, observed particles the leptons e^± and μ^±. This paper proposes an alternative interpretation of these data in terms of the mass doublets in general relativity, predicted by this author's theory. It was found earlier in this theory that e^± and μ^± would be the end products of the $p\bar p$ interaction, and that the «heavy electron» of the electron mass doublet has all of the physical properties of the muon, and that the heavy-proton component of the proton doublet has a mass that is 193 GeV. The latter is in agreement with the measured top-quark in general relativity and the quark theory in QCD is that the heavy proton has integral charge, while that of the quark is a fractional value. The direct measurement of the charge of t could then settle the difference between these two theories.