Strict gauge invariance requires that physical left-handed leptons
are actually bound states of the elementary left-handed lepton doublet
and the Higgs field within the standard model. That they nonetheless
behave almost like pure elementary particles is explained by the
Fr"ohlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism. Using lattice gauge theory,
we test and confirm this mechanism for fermions. Though, due to the
current inaccessibility of non-Abelian gauged Weyl fermions on the
lattice, a model which contains vectorial leptons but which obeys all
other relevant symmetries has been simulated.
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