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The origin of the first and third generation fermion masses in a technicolor scenario

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v4

Abstract

We argue that the masses of the first and third fermionic generations, which are respectively of the order of a few MeV up to a hundred GeV, are originated in a dynamical symmetry breaking mechanism leading to masses of the order αμ\alpha \mu, where α\alpha is a small coupling constant and μ\mu, in the case of the first fermionic generation, is the scale of the dynamical quark mass (250\approx 250 MeV). For the third fermion generation μ\mu is the value of the dynamical techniquark mass (250\approx 250 GeV). We discuss how this possibility can be implemented in a technicolor scenario, and how the mass of the intermediate generation is generated.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0302166,
  title  = {The origin of the first and third generation fermion masses in a technicolor scenario},
  author = {A. Doff and A. A. Natale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0302166},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures as eps files, Latex; Abridged version of the previous preprint. Title changed. Results remain the same