A New Paradigm for the Fermion Generations
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-02-03 v2
Abstract
A new mechanism is proposed to explain the appearance of the three known fermion generations in a natural way. The underlying idea is based on the discreteness of the spectrum of solutions of the gap equation appearing in models of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. Within such a framework, the number of parameters needed to describe the experimentally observed fermion spectrum is drastically reduced. The phenomenological consequences of such a mechanism are carefully discussed, in order to explore its viability.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403220,
title = {A New Paradigm for the Fermion Generations},
author = {George Triantaphyllou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403220},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
36 pages, LaTeX, minor typographical corrections and explanatory remarks added, version published in Helvetica Physica Acta, 67, No. 6 (October 1994)