THE BASICS The known leptons are the electron, the muon, the tauon, and their respective neutrinos and antiparticles. From the known decay:
m^- ® n_mn_ee^-, it is easy to imagine that the decay products might actually be bound within the original particle in a binding that could be as simple as:
m^- = n_m·n_e·e^-. In like manner, the tauon, which decays:
t^- ® n_tn_mm^- or t^- ® n_tn_ee^-, could easily consist of the following simple binding:
t^- = n_t·n_m·m^- = n_t·n_m·n_m·n_e·e^-. The actual bindings within complex leptons might be more complex, but would consist of at least an odd number of basic leptons, including an excess electron, neutrino and antineutrino of different types and some number of lepton-antilepton pairs. In the same manner that a complex lepton can simply be imagined as a binding of an odd number of basic leptons and antileptons, a meson can be imagined as a binding of an even number of basic leptons and antileptons. The bindings will determine the meson’s type and properties. This concept is also suggested by decays of some of the particles. For example, another decay of the t^- particle is
t^- ® p^-n_t and the most common decay of the p^- is in turn
p^- ® m^-n_m ® n_mn_mn_ee^-. Both suggest that the p^- can be represented as a binding that could be as simple as:
p^- = n_m·n_m·n_e·e^-. Simple bindings for the slightly less massive neutrally charged p⁰ meson might be
p⁰ = e⁺·n_m·n_m·e^- or p⁰ = e⁺·n_e·n_e·e^-. The two known decays modes for this binding:
p⁰ ® gg (complete annihilation of all the constituents into energy) and
p⁰ ® ge⁺e^-, (partial annihilation) are consistent with the suggested bindings.