22 research outputs found
U(1) Models of Fermion Masses Without a Problem
We discuss the connection between models of fermion masses and mixing
involving a string-motivated flavor/generation U(1) gauge symmetry and the
term. We point out that in a certain class of such models the flavor
physics can provide an appealing solution to the problem, naturally
yielding a . A simple relationship between the
charge of the -term and the average generational charges
of the down quark and leptonic sectors is derived. Finally, we construct an
explicit model illustrating our results.Comment: 12 pages, Latex Fil
Supergravity Coupled to Chiral Matter at One Loop
We extend earlier calculations of the one-loop contributions to the effective
bose Lagrangian in supergravity coupled to chiral matter. We evaluate all
logarithmically divergent contributions for arbitrary background scalar fields
and space-time metric. We show that, with a judicious choice of gauge fixing
and of the definition of the action expansion, much of the result can be
absorbed into a redefinition of the metric and a renormalization of the
K\"ahler potential. Most of the remaining terms depend on the curvature of the
K\"ahler metric. Further simplification occurs in models obtained from
superstrings in which the K\"ahler Riemann tensor is covariantly constant.Comment: 33 pages, LBL-34457, UCB-PTH-93-2
Classical Isomorphisms for Quantum Groups
The expressions for the --matrices for the quantum groups
SO(5) and SO(6) in terms of the --matrices for Sp(2)
and SL(4) are found, and the local isomorphisms of the corresponding
quantum groups are established.Comment: 11 page
Models of Fermion Mass Matrices Based on a Flavor- and Generation-Dependent U(1) Gauge Symmetry
We study models of fermion mass matrices based on a flavor- and
generation-dependent string-motivated U(1) gauge symmetry and report two
new classes of solutions to the requisite consistency conditions. In
particular, we propose that the fundamental reason underlying the striking
feature is that all of the elements of the down-quark
and charged lepton effective Yukawa matrices actually arise from
higher-dimension operators, suppressed by inverse powers of the Plank mass. An
explicit model embodying this idea is constructed.Comment: 11 pages, late
On the High Phase Transition in the Gauged Higgs Model
We study the effective field theory of a weakly coupled 3+1d gauged
type model at high temperature. Our model has real scalars
( complex Higgs doublets) and a gauge group which is spontaneously
broken by a nonzero scalar field at zero temperature.
We find, for sufficiently large , that the transition from the high
temperature symmetry restoring phase to the low temperature phase can be either
first order or second order depending on the ratio of the gauge coupling to the
scalar self coupling.Comment: 16 pages. 1 Figure, not include