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Explorations of two empirical formulae for fermion masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-23 v2

Abstract

Two empirical formulae for the lepton and quark masses (i.e. Kartavtsev's extended Koide formulae), Kl=(lml)/(lml)2=2/3K_l=(\sum_l m_l)/(\sum_l\sqrt{m_l})^2=2/3 and Kq=(qmq)/(qmq)2=2/3K_q=(\sum_q m_q)/(\sum_q\sqrt{m_q})^2=2/3, are explored in this paper. For the lepton sector, we show that Kl=2/3K_l=2/3, only if the uncertainty of the tauon mass is relaxed to about 2σ2\sigma confidence level, and the neutrino masses can consequently be extracted with the current experimental data. For the quark sector, the extended Koide formula should only be applied to the running quark masses, and KqK_q is found to be rather insensitive to the renormalization effects in a large range of energy scales from GeV to 101210^{12} GeV. However, KqK_q is always slightly larger than 2/32/3, but the discrepancy is merely about 5%5\%.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06349,
  title  = {Explorations of two empirical formulae for fermion masses},
  author = {Guan-Hua Gao and Nan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06349},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures