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Consequences of an Abelian family symmetry

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/177400· OSTI ID:177400
The addition of an Abelian family symmetry to the Minimal Super-symmetric Standard Model reproduces the observed hierarchies of quark and lepton masses and quark mixing angles, only if it is anomalous. Green-Schwarz compensation of its anomalies requires the electroweak mixing angle to be sin{sup 2}{theta}{sub {omega}} = 3/8 at the string scale, without any assumed GUT structure, suggesting a superstring origin for the standard model. The analysis is extended to neutrino masses and the lepton mixing matrix.
Research Organization:
Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL (United States). Inst. for Fundamental Theory
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG05-86ER40272
OSTI ID:
177400
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40272--224; UFIFT-HEP--95-7; ON: DE96004394
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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