Commonsense vs. the Electroweak Theory

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The following lines prove that one can apply a self-evident commonsense and find that an uncorrectable error exists in the electroweak theory. People who are not acquainted with the physical statements 1-3 can assume that they are correct and arrive at the same conclusion.
  1. The electromagnetic interaction of the electrically charged electron which obeys the Dirac equation is known since the very early days of this equation. Here an expression for the 4-current  jμ  plays a crucial role. This equation is very successful.
  2. In the case of a quantum mechanical particle, the Noether theorem is used as the standard way for constructing an expression for the above mentioned 4-current. This method works fine for the Dirac electron.
  3. The W particle carries an electric charge and is an indispensable element of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. As a charge carrying particle, the quantum structure of the W must yield a self-consistent expression for the Maxwellian 4-current. However, more than 4 decades have elapsed since the publication of the electroweak theory and there is still no consistent expression for the 4-current of the W because the Noether theorem does not work for it. For this reason, people who work in modern accelerators still use an "effective expression" for the W's electromagnetic interaction. (See V.M. Abazov et al. (D0 collaboration), Phys. Lett. B718, 451 (2012) and G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B712, 289 (2012).)
Self-evident conclusions:
  1. Item 1 above describes an example showing that if an expression for the 4-current of a quantum particle exists then it is found quite rapidly. Therefore, it is concluded that an acceptable expression for the W's 4-current cannot be constructed, because the ordinary method of the Noether theorem does not work and so many people have not found it during more than four decades.
  2. Electrodynamics is a well known theory which relies on the 4-current for a proper description of electromagnetic interaction. Therefore, there is an uncorrectable problem with the Standard Model electroweak theory because it is based on an assumed charged particle that has no theoretically valid expression for its electromagnetic interaction.
A physical conclusion: The failure to describe the W as an elementary charged particle means that the experimentally detected object called W must be a composite particle. The most reasonable candidate is a meson which is a superposition of the top quark and a corresponding antiquark.

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