The Top Quark and other Fermion Masses
Abstract
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Recent developments on approaches to the quark lepton mass problem are reviewed. In particular we discuss dynamical calculations of the top quark mass at (a) the infrared quasifixed point of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model renormalisation group equations, and (b) a strongly first order critical point of the Standard Model effective potential. The phenomenology of symmetric mass matrix ansätze with texture zeros at the unification scale is also considered. The underlying chiral symmetry presumed responsible for the fermion mass hierarchy is discussed, with particular reference to superstring based models.
uuencoded 15 page LaTeX file plus 7 postscript figures, uses psfig.sty and epsf.sty; to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics, Corfu, 3 - 24 September 1995
uuencoded 15 page LaTeX file plus 7 postscript figures, uses psfig.sty and epsf.sty; to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics, Corfu, 3 - 24 September 1995