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Johan Bijnens in front of his whiteboard

Johan Bijnens

Professor, Deputy Head of Division

Johan Bijnens in front of his whiteboard

Fermion masses from symmetry

Author

  • J. Bijnens
  • C. Wetterich

Summary, in English

We present a model with continuous or discrete abelian generation group G, which predicts all orders of magnitude for fermion masses ad mixings correctly as a function of only one small parameter φS M ≈ 1 10. Here φS is the scale of G symmetry breaking and M the fundamental mass scale of the theory. No small Yukawa couplings or special choices of the scalar potential are needed. We perform a systematic computerized scan for similar models with abelian generation group and we find a few other examples. However, for a wide range of charges we find no anomaly free continuous symmetry and also none without mixed SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1), U(1)G anomalies consistent with realistic fermion masses if G is broken by one field with definite charge. We also scan a class of models with generation symmetry derived from a higher dimensional framework.

Publishing year

1987

Language

English

Pages

237-267

Publication/Series

Nuclear Physics, Section B

Volume

283

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

North-Holland

Topic

  • Other Physics Topics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0550-3213