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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Developing the Framed Standard Model
Hong-mo ChanSheung Tsun TsouJosé BordesMichael J. Bakersubject
Quantum chromodynamicsQuarkPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsCabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrixHigh Energy Physics::LatticeHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFísicaFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsFermionAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyStandard Model (mathematical formulation)Higgs fieldTheoretical physicsHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Strong CP problemHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentGauge theorydescription
The framed standard model (FSM) suggested earlier, which incorporates the Higgs field and 3 fermion generations as part of the framed gauge theory structure, is here developed further to show that it gives both quarks and leptons hierarchical masses and mixing matrices akin to what is experimentally observed. Among its many distinguishing features which lead to the above results are (i) the vacuum is degenerate under a global $su(3)$ symmetry which plays the role of fermion generations, (ii) the fermion mass matrix is "universal", rank-one and rotates (changes its orientation in generation space) with changing scale $\mu$, (iii) the metric in generation space is scale-dependent too, and in general non-flat, (iv) the theta-angle term in the QCD action of topological origin gets transformed into the CP-violating phase of the CKM matrix for quarks, thus offering at the same time a solution to the strong CP problem.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-11-23 |