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

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTZ118zbMATH Open1477.81114arXiv1905.11597OpenAlexW3105543482WikidataQ127255328 ScholiaQ127255328MaRDI QIDQ5156232FDOQ5156232

Pedro Hugo Tanaka, Kazunori Takenaga, Makoto Sakamoto, Kenji Nishiwaki, Inori Ueba, Kouhei Hasegawa, Yukihiro Fujimoto

Publication date: 15 October 2021

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 to control 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11597

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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• Difference Equations for the Masses of Leptons and Quarks in TeV Quantum Gravity

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