Under the assumption that the charge:] vector mesons W as intermediaries of weak interactions exist, the following problems are considered: (a) Is it possible to understand in a unified way the universality of weak coupling constants, the charged current-current picture of weak interactions and the I JII = l/2 enhancement of nonleptonic decays ? (b) How can we understand the distinctive character of W?A possible answer to the problems seems to be obtained if one considers the problems by standing on a "genetical" vievvpoint of elementary particles (such as the Nagoya model). ln order to answer to these problems from this viewpoint, a model of the W-meson is proposed on the basis of the quartet model, and on the same basis the semi-weak two-body interactions are introduced, which are expected to play a main role (i.e. to lead the I Lil\ = l/2 enhancement) in nonleptonic interactions. In this model, 1V' -mesons are assumed to be composed of strongly correLl ted R~ and B,. Thus, the peculiarity of 1V-mesons will be understood in intimate connection with that of B-matters. The weak interaction is generated from some kind of primordial charge-exchange process between a lepton and B-matter. In the J,')'=O noaleptonic transitions, amplitudes with t1l -~ () are much larger than amplitudes with \.d I I = 1. Even number of vV-mesons expected to interact strongly; therefore, multiple lepton-production should occur in super high energies. It is investigated whether the picture similar to that of the proposed model is applicable to other models of elementary particles in order to see the quartet model is more preferable than the quark model and Bacry-Nuyts-Van Hove model. Even if the latter models are modified along the spirit of Nagoya model, the essential picture of the present model is not applicable to the quark model, and in Bacry-Nuyts-Van Hove model one fails to obtain the ) .d1i ~-1 1 :2 enhancement. § 1. Introduction
1·1. Proposal of problemsLow-energy processes of weak interactions with leptons are known to be well governed by the following selection rules :(1) The interactions are of ( V, A) type.(2) Half of leptons participating in the weak process are neutrinos, These rules are usually expressed by writing the weak interaction as the currentcurrent type, where the current is a charged one and of ( V, ./1) type. Many authors (S. Ogawa and others) l) have searched for a substantialistic basis of these at Kainan University on March 11, 2015 http://ptp.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from *) B. d'Espagnat (Rochester Conf., 1960, p. 589) has discussed the possibility that one can get the \ L1 I\ = 1/2 rule with charged in tenneclia te bosons only. But, leptonic processes with I L1 S I = 2 occur in the first order of weak interactions.