Alternative Model for Quarks and Leptons Using Extra-Dimensional Effective Potential

Johannes V. Djoko Wirjawan  Assuming that the weak-isospin, particle-type (quark or lepton), color, and generation are internal quantum numbers, we may generate those quantum numbers by cloning the Dirac operator in four flat extra dimensions and trapping fermions in a harmonic-oscillator potential in the extra dimensions. Particle identification is obtained from the group representation