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Summary A quark or lepton field transforming chirally under the electroweak group and in a color representation for quarks.
Record metadata
Canonical name Standard Model fermion field
Concept ID fermion_matter_field
Content version 2.3.0
Alternate terminology No alternate terminology is currently authored for this record.
Concept type Chiral matter field Incoming relations (arrows to this concept) Each relation below ends at this concept.
No direct relations are authored in this direction.
Outgoing relations (arrows from this concept) Each relation below starts at this concept.
This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
Relation ID fermionfield_to_left
Relation type Classification classification
Direction source → target
Endpoint roles source: Has subtype; target: Classified as
Authored annotation left-handed chiral fields Authored explanation Left-handed quarks and leptons transform in weak doublets.
How to interpret this relation type The target is a member or subtype of the broader source class.
This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
Relation ID fermionfield_to_leptonfield
Relation type Classification classification
Direction source → target
Endpoint roles source: Has subtype; target: Classified as
Authored annotation lepton matter field Authored explanation Lepton fields are color-singlet Standard Model fermion fields.
How to interpret this relation type The target is a member or subtype of the broader source class.
This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
Relation ID fermionfield_to_quarkfield
Relation type Classification classification
Direction source → target
Endpoint roles source: Has subtype; target: Classified as
Authored annotation quark matter field Authored explanation Quark fields are color-charged Standard Model fermion fields.
How to interpret this relation type The target is a member or subtype of the broader source class.
This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
Relation ID fermionfield_to_right
Relation type Classification classification
Direction source → target
Endpoint roles source: Has subtype; target: Classified as
Authored annotation right-handed chiral fields Authored explanation Charged right-handed fermion fields are weak singlets in the minimal Standard Model.
How to interpret this relation type The target is a member or subtype of the broader source class.
This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
Relation ID fermionfield_to_smlag
Relation type Theory component theory-component
Direction source → target
Endpoint roles source: Contributes to; target: Contains theory component
Authored annotation chiral matter kinetic terms Authored explanation The Standard Model Lagrangian contains three generations of chiral fermion fields.
How to interpret this relation type The source supplies a substantive formal ingredient, dynamical sector, law, field content, or mechanism of the target theoretical framework.