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An explicit SU(12) family and flavor unification model

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807356· OSTI ID:22118506
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 and Theoretical Physics, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 60510 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 (United States)
An explicit SUSY SU(12) unification model with three light chiral families is presented which avoids any external flavor symmetries. The hierarchy of quark and lepton masses and mixings is explained by higher dimensional Yukawa interactions involving Higgs bosons containing SU(5) singlet fields with VEVs appearing at or below the SUSY GUT scale of 2 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 16} GeV, approximately 50 times smaller than the SU(12) unification scale. The model has been found to be in good agreement with the observed quark and lepton masses and mixings, with nearly all prefactors of {beta}(1) in the four Dirac and one Majorana fermion mass matrices.
OSTI ID:
22118506
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1534; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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