Mass Hierarchies from Anomalies: a Peek Behind the Planck Curtain
| dc.creator | Ramond, P. | |
| dc.date | 1996-04-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:59:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:59:05Z | |
| dc.description | The masses of quarks and leptons suggest a strong hierarchical structure. We argue that their patterns can be reproduced through the introduction of a new Abelian symmetry. The data suggest that this symmetry is anomalous. We suggest that the cancellation of its anomalies occur through the Green-Schwarz mechanism. An important check of this idea is that it links the Weinberg angle to a mass ratio of the elementary fermions. The Green-Schwarz mechanism occurs naturally in many superstring compactifications, and produces a small parameter, which we use to determine the quark mass hierarchy. We show that hierarchy and mixings among the chiral fermions is a consequence of the Green-Schwarz mechanism. We present several models where this idea is realized. | |
| dc.description | Based on a talk delivered in the honor of Professor K. Kikkawa's 60th birthday, December 1995, Osaka, Japan. Latex, 15 pages, macros included | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9604251 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9604251 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/46075 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Mass Hierarchies from Anomalies: a Peek Behind the Planck Curtain | |
| dc.type | text |