COMPOSITE WEAK BOSONS, LEPTONS AND QUARKS

The weak bosons are interpreted as composite particles. They consist of two fundamental ifermions, bound by a confining gauge interaction. The mass scale of this new interaction is determined. A new neutral isoscalar weak boson X must exist. Its mass is expected to be less than 1 TeV. It will decay mainly into quark and lepton pairs and into two or three weak bosons. Above 1 TeV excitations of the weak bosons must exist, which mainly decay into pairs of weak bosons. Leptons and quarks consist of a fermion and a scalar. Two scalars form bound states, which are either neutral in charge or have charge 2/3 e.