Yukawa hierarchies from spontaneous breaking of the SU(3)_L(3)_R flavour symmetry?

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2013)137MaRDI QIDQ302713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. R. Espinosa, Chee Sheng Fong, Enrico Nardi

Publication date 12 August 2016

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6428

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelquark masses and SM parametersspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: The tree level potential for a scalar multiplet of `Yukawa fields' $Y$ for one type of quarks admits the promising vacuum configuration $<Y>proptomdiag(0,0,1)$ that breaks spontaneously $SU(3{)}_{L}imesSU(3{)}_R$ flavour symmetry. We investigate whether the vanishing entries could be lifted to nonvanishing values by slightly perturbing the potential, thus providing a mechanism to generate the Yukawa hierarchies. For theories where at the lowest order the only massless states are Nambu-Goldstone bosons we find, as a general result, that the structure of the tree-level vacuum is perturbatively stable against corrections from scalar loops or higher dimensional operators. We discuss the reasons for this stability, and give an explicit illustration in the case of loop corrections by direct computation of the one-loop effective potential of Yukawa fields. Nevertheless, a hierarchical configuration $<Y>proptomdiag(epsilo{n}^{\prime },epsilon,1)$ (with $epsilo{n}^{\prime },epsilonll1$) can be generated by enlarging the scalar Yukawa sector. We present a simple model in which spontaneous breaking of the flavour symmetry can give rise to the fermion mass hierarchies.

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