Sidney A. Bludman

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The lepton and strongly interacting particle currents in the universal Fermi interaction are both assumed to be split into two parts, even and odd, with respect to an internal symmetry operation. The rcquirement that the over-all interaction be even allows 2 mu yields 2e processes while forbidding single mu yields e conversion and requires that the nonleptonic decays come about through the coupling of the strangeness-changing current with itself. This requirement leads to a theory that differs from the schizon scheme by allowing DELTA = 2 leptonic processes, and differs from the veton scheme by associating electrons with muon neutrinos in strangeness-changing processes. (auth)