Weak interactions as manifestations of the substructure of leptons and quarks

A new model for the substructure of leptons, quarks and weak bosons is investigated. The weak interactions are residual effects due to the substructure. No spontaneous symmetry breaking is needed to generate masses. The structure of the weak interactions at high energies is expected to deviate substantially from the one predicted by the standard SU(2) × U(1) theory.