scholarly journals A unified Yukawa interaction for the Standard Model of quarks and leptons

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (27) ◽  
pp. 2150196
Author(s):  
Ying Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Yukawa Interaction ◽  
Flavor Structure ◽  
Fermion Masses ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Matrix Formula

To address fermion mass hierarchy and flavor mixings in the quark and lepton sectors, a minimal flavor structure without any redundant parameters beyond phenomenological observables is proposed via decomposition of the Standard Model Yukawa mass matrix into a bi-unitary form. After reviewing the roles and parameterization of the factorized matrix [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in fermion masses and mixings, we generalize the mechanism to up- and down-type fermions to unify them into a universal quark/lepton Yukawa interaction. In the same way, a unified form of the description of the quark and lepton Yukawa interactions is also proposed, which shows a similar picture as the unification of gauge interactions.

scholarly journals A first test of the framed standard model against experiment

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1550051 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Bordes ◽  
Hong-Mo Chan ◽  
Sheung Tsun Tsou
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Internal Symmetry ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Order Unity ◽  
Changing Scale ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Space ◽  
Fermion Mass Matrix

The framed standard model (FSM) is obtained from the standard model by incorporating, as field variables, the frame vectors (vielbeins) in internal symmetry space. It gives the standard Higgs boson and 3 generations of quarks and leptons as immediate consequences. It gives moreover a fermion mass matrix of the form: m = mTαα†, where α is a vector in generation space independent of the fermion species and rotating with changing scale, which has already been shown to lead, generically, to up–down mixing, neutrino oscillations and mass hierarchy. In this paper, pushing the FSM further, one first derives to 1-loop order the RGE for the rotation of α, and then applies it to fit mass and mixing data as a first test of the model. With 7 real adjustable parameters, 18 measured quantities are fitted, most (12) to within experimental error or to better than 0.5 percent, and the rest (6) not far off. (A summary of this fit can be found in Table 2 of this paper.) Two notable features, both generic to FSM, not just specific to the fit, are: (i) that a theta-angle of order unity in the instanton term in QCD would translate via rotation into a Kobayashi–Maskawa phase in the CKM matrix of about the observed magnitude (J ~ 10-5), (ii) that it would come out correctly that mu < md, despite the fact that mt ≫ mb, mc ≫ ms. Of the 18 quantities fitted, 12 are deemed independent in the usual formulation of the standard model. In fact, the fit gives a total of 17 independent parameters of the standard model, but 5 of these have not been measured by experiment.

scholarly journals A bottom-up approach to fermion mass hierarchy: a case with vector-like fermions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiharu Kawamura
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Yukawa Coupling ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Existence Proofs ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract We propose a bottom-up approach in which a structure of high-energy physics is explored by accumulating existence proofs and/or no-go theorems in the standard model or its extension. As an illustration, we study fermion mass hierarchies based on an extension of the standard model with vector-like fermions. It is shown that the magnitude of elements of Yukawa coupling matrices can become $O(1)$ and a Yukawa coupling unification can be realized in a theory beyond the extended model, if vector-like fermions mix with three families. In this case, small Yukawa couplings in the standard model can be highly sensitive to a small variation of matrix elements, and it seems that the mass hierarchy occurs as a result of fine tuning.

scholarly journals A road towards a beyond the Standard Model model

2022 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 06003
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Chiral Symmetry ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Gauge Coupling ◽  
Spontaneous Breaking ◽  
Strong Interactions ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Strongly Interacting ◽  
Fermion Masses

In this talk we describe examples of renormalizable strongly interacting field theories where chiral symmetry, broken at the UV cutoff by the presence of some irrelevant d > 4 operators in the fundamental Lagrangian, is recovered at low energy owing to the tuning of certain Lagrangian parameters. The interference of UV effects with IR features coming from the spontaneous breaking of the recovered chiral symmetry yields non perturbatively generated elementary fermion masses parametrically expressed by formulae of the kind mq ~ Cq(α)ΛRGI with α the gauge coupling constant and ΛRGI the RGI scale of the theory. Upon introducing EW interactions, this mechanism can be extended to give mass to EW bosons and leptons and can thus be used as an alternative to the Higgs scenario. In order to give the top quark and the weak gauge bosons a mass of the phenomenologically correct order of magnitude, the model must necessarily include (yet unobserved) super-strongly interacting massive fermions endowed, besides ordinary Standard Model interactions, with super-strong interactions with a RGI scale, ΛT ΛQCD in the few TeV range. Though limited in its scope (here we ignore hypercharge and leptons and discuss only the case of one family neglecting weak isospin splitting), the model opens the way to a solution of the naturalness problem and an understanding of the fermion mass hierarchy.

scholarly journals Fermion mass hierarchy in grand gauge-Higgs unification

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhito Maru ◽  
Yoshiki Yatagai
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Boson Mass ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Fermion Masses ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mass Terms ◽  
The One

Abstract Grand gauge-Higgs unification of 5D $SU(6)$ gauge theory on an orbifold $S^1/Z_2$ is discussed. The Standard Model (SM) fermions are introduced on one of the boundaries and some massive bulk fields are also introduced so that they couple to the SM fermions through the mass terms on the boundary. Integrating out the bulk fields generates SM fermion masses with exponentially small bulk mass dependences. The SM fermion masses except for the top quark are shown to be reproduced by mild tuning of the bulk masses. The one-loop Higgs potential is calculated and it is shown that electroweak symmetry breaking occurs by introducing additional bulk fields. The Higgs boson mass is also computed.

scholarly journals Flavoured warped axion

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Bonnefoy ◽  
Peter Cox ◽  
Emilian Dudas ◽  
Tony Gherghetta ◽  
Minh D. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Field ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Complex Scalar ◽  
Fermion Masses ◽  
Complex Scalar Field ◽  
Hierarchy Problems

Abstract We consider a 5D extension of the DFSZ axion model that addresses both the axion quality and fermion mass hierarchy problems, and predicts flavour-dependent, off-diagonal axion-fermion couplings. The axion is part of a 5D complex scalar field charged under a U(1)PQ symmetry that is spontaneously broken in the bulk, and is insensitive to explicit PQ breaking on the UV boundary. Bulk Standard Model fermions interact with two Higgs doublets that can be localized on the UV boundary or propagate in the bulk to explain the fermion masses and mixings. When the Higgs doublets are localized on the UV boundary, they induce flavour diagonal couplings between the fermions and the axion. However, when the Higgs doublets propagate in the bulk, the overlap of the axion and fermion profiles generates flavour off-diagonal couplings. The effective scale of these off-diagonal couplings in both the quark and lepton sectors can be as small as 1011 GeV, and therefore will be probed in future precision flavour experiments.

scholarly journals FERMION MASS HIERARCHY IN LIFSHITZ TYPE GAUGE THEORY

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (19) ◽  
pp. 1613-1623 ◽  
Author(s):  
KUNIO KANETA ◽  
YOSHIHARU KAWAMURA
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Fermion Masses ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Flavor Mixing ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Associated Operators

We study the origin of fermion mass hierarchy and flavor mixing in a Lifshitz type extension of the standard model including an extra scalar field. We show that the hierarchical structure can originate from renormalizable interactions. In contrast to the ordinary Froggatt–Nielsen mechanism, the higher the dimension of associated operators, the heavier the fermion masses. Tiny masses for left-handed neutrinos are obtained without introducing right-handed neutrinos.

scholarly journals Scalar clockwork and flavor neutrino mass matrix

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teruyuki Kitabayashi
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Neutrino Mass Matrix ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Yukawa Couplings ◽  
Flavor Structure ◽  
Site Number ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract We study the capability of generating the correct flavor neutrino mass matrix in a scalar clockwork model. First, we assume that the flavor structure is controlled by the Yukawa couplings as in the standard model. In this case, the correct flavor neutrino mass matrix could be obtained by appropriate Yukawa couplings $Y_{\ell^\prime\ell}$ where $\ell^\prime, \ell = e, \mu, \tau$. Next, we assume that the Yukawa couplings are extremely democratic: $|Y_{\ell^\prime\ell} |=1$. In this case, the model parameters of the scalar clockwork sector, such as the site number of a clockwork gear in a clockwork chain, should have the flavor indices $\ell^\prime$ and/or $\ell$ to generate the correct flavor neutrino mass matrix. We show some examples of assignments of the flavor indices which can yield the correct flavor neutrino mass matrix.

scholarly journals A SOLUTION TO THE STRONG CP PROBLEM TRANSFORMING THE THETA ANGLE TO THE KM CP-VIOLATING PHASE

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (32) ◽  
pp. 5897-5911 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ BORDES ◽  
HONG-MO CHAN ◽  
SHEUNG TSUN TSOU
Keyword(s):  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Order Unity ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
Cp Violations ◽  
Fermion Mass Matrix

It is shown that in the scheme with a rotating fermion mass matrix (i.e. one with a scale-dependent orientation in generation space) suggested earlier for explaining fermion mixing and mass hierarchy, the theta angle term in the QCD action of topological origin can be eliminated by chiral transformations, while giving still nonzero masses to all quarks. Instead, the effects of such transformations get transmitted by the rotation to the CKM matrix as the KM phase giving, for θ of order unity, a Jarlskog invariant typically of order 10-5, as experimentally observed. Strong and weak CP violations appear then as just two facets of the same phenomenon.

scholarly journals The framed Standard Model (II) — A first test against experiment

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (30) ◽  
pp. 1530060
Author(s):  
Hong-Mo Chan ◽  
Sheung Tsun Tsou
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Renormalization Group Equation ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Group Equation ◽  
Unknown Parameters ◽  
Mass Matrices ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Experimental Values ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Independent Parameters

Apart from the qualitative features described in Paper I (Ref. 1), the renormalization group equation derived for the rotation of the fermion mass matrices are amenable to quantitative study. The equation depends on a coupling and a fudge factor and, on integration, on 3 integration constants. Its application to data analysis, however, requires the input from experiment of the heaviest generation masses [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] all of which are known, except for [Formula: see text]. Together then with the theta-angle in the QCD action, there are in all 7 real unknown parameters. Determining these 7 parameters by fitting to the experimental values of the masses [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], the CKM elements [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and the neutrino oscillation angle [Formula: see text], one can then calculate and compare with experiment the following 12 other quantities [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and the results all agree reasonably well with data, often to within the stringent experimental error now achieved. Counting the predictions not yet measured by experiment, this means that 17 independent parameters of the standard model are now replaced by 7 in the FSM.

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