Dynamical generation of quark/lepton mass hierarchy in an extra dimension

Fujimoto, Yukihiro; Hasegawa, Kouhei; Nishiwaki, Kenji; Sakamoto, Makoto; Takenaga, Kazunori; Tanaka, Pedro Hugo; Ueba, Inori (2019) Dynamical generation of quark/lepton mass hierarchy in an extra dimension. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2019 (12). ISSN 2050-3911

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Abstract

We show that the observed quark/lepton mass hierarchy can be realized dynamically on an interval extra dimension with point interactions. In our model, the positions of the point interactions play a crucial role in controlling the quark/lepton mass hierarchy and are determined by the minimization of the Casimir energy. By use of the exact extra-dimensional coordinate-dependent vacuum expectation value of a gauge-singlet scalar, we find that there is a parameter set, where the positions of the point interactions are stabilized and fixed, which can reproduce the experimental values of the quark masses precisely enough, while the charged lepton part is less relevant. We also show that possible mixings among the charged leptons will improve the situation significantly.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	eextra dimensions, quark masses
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Theoretical Physics Division
Projects:	Project title Project leader Project code Project type Sinergijom do uspjeha: RBI-T-WINNING i ESIF udruženi u jačanju izvrsnosti Zavoda za teorijsku fiziku Instituta Ruđer Bošković-RBI-TWINN-SIN Blazenka Melic KK.01.1.1.06.0006 EK
Depositing User:	Marina Mayer
Date Deposited:	19 May 2020 14:11
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/5815
DOI:	10.1093/ptep/ptz118

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