Horizontal Flavor Chirality, the Canonical Fermion Mass Matrix, and an Alternative-Nonconservation Scenario
- 16 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (11) , 691-694
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.691
Abstract
Horizontal flavor chirality and a minimal Higgs system are combined for uniquely establishing a "canonical" fermion mass matrix, reflecting pure nearest-neighbor Yukawa interactions, for any arbitrary number of generations. The quark-mass matrices then become tightly correlated by the anomaly-free equations, admitting neither strong nor weak nonconservation. The resulting horizontal nonconservation is then truly superweak, signifying the existence of an energy oasis around a few hundred teraelectronvolts.
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