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Abstract
We introduce four fundamental quantum numbers based on the \(D_4\) root system, giving a unified description of quarks and leptons. These numbers will make it possible to define electric charge in a simple way. By postulating a fundamental symmetry given by the binary tetrahedral group acting on this root system, we can easily prove conservation of electric charge. Also, possible electroweak interactions are given by a simple rule where the 24-cell acts on itself by quaternion multiplication. The three generations of fermions in the Standard Model are hereby identified with the three imaginary dimensions of the quaternions.
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Experimental Physics I: Accelerator Based High-Energy Physics
Hadron and lepton collider physics
Lepton-nucleon scattering
High-energy nuclear reactions
Standard model precision tests
Search for new physics beyond the standard model
Heavy flavour physics
Neutrino properties
Particle detector developments
Computational methods and analysis tools
Experimental Physics II: Astroparticle Physics
Dark matter searches
High-energy cosmic rays
Double beta decay
Long baseline neutrino experiments
Neutrino astronomy
Axions and other weakly interacting light particles
Gravitational waves and observational cosmology
Particle detector developments
Computational methods and analysis tools
Theoretical Physics I: Phenomenology of the Standard Model and Beyond
Electroweak interactions
Quantum chromo dynamics
Heavy quark physics and quark flavour mixing
Neutrino physics
Phenomenology of astro- and cosmoparticle physics
Meson spectroscopy and non-perturbative QCD
Low-energy effective field theories
Lattice field theory
High temperature QCD and heavy ion physics
Phenomenology of supersymmetric extensions of the SM
Phenomenology of non-supersymmetric extensions of the SM
Model building and alternative models of electroweak symmetry breaking
Flavour physics beyond the SM
Computational algorithms and tools...etc.