Elementary particles are supposed not to be configured from other particles. However, elementary particles can still annihilate. When they annihilate, the process produces photons. Photons also have particle behavior. Is this a contradiction?
Elementary particles are supposed to be point-like objects. Are all point-like objects elementary particles?
The Higgs particle is supposed to be an elementary particle. Still, it decays into other objects. These objects need not be photons. Is it wrong to consider the Higgs particle as an elementary particle?
Are higher generation particles such as muon and tau elementary particles?
Can elementary particles only exist as fermions and are massive bosons always composites?
Higgs decays into other particles but no in pure way. It decays by interactions with Z, W or color gauge bosons. The easies way understand this is watching experiments with proton and neutron where we can see that they should be composite of some others particles. And the next interesting thing is that By particle You think field - as state not as real ball. So question is - it is possible represent Higgs boson (scalar field ) as composite of others fields.
Sebastian,
You may be interested in looking at docs.com/hans-van-leunen
The Hilbert Book model introduces modules and modular systems and considers elementary particles as elementary modules. Elementary modules are not configured from other modules. They have a particular representation in the Hilbert space. That representation covers a one-dimensional subspace. It cannot be split into deeper subspaces.
https://www.docs.com/hans-van-leunen
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