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Neutrino masses from lepton and quark mass relations and neutrino oscillations
Determining the absolute masses of neutrinos is of fundamental importance in
particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. We conjecture that
intrinsic mass relations exist between leptons and quarks. Using these
relations and neutrino oscillation data, we show that the inverted neutrino
mass hierarchy is strongly disfavored and estimate the absolute neutrino masses
to be m_{1}=0.21^{+1.70}_{-0.21} \times 10^{-4} {eV}, m_{2}=(8.7 \pm 0.1)
\times 10^{-3} {eV}, and m_{3}=(4.9 \pm 0.1) \times 10^{-2} {eV}.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections, reference list updated;
accepted for publication in Phys Rev
Applications of Symmetry Breaking in Determining PDFs of the Nucleon
Studying the possible breaking of various parton model symmetries by the
parton distribution functions of the nucleon can provide important information
for the non-perturbative structure of hadrons and the strong interaction. We
review theoretical calculations for the breaking of flavor symmetry,
quark-antiquark symmetry and charge symmetry in the unpolarized and polarized
nucleons using the meson cloud model. We report an estimation for the total
distribution of strange and antistrange quarks in the nucleon by combining
theoretical calculations of SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking with light antiquark
distributions obtained from global analysis of available experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX, talk presented at Pacific Spin 2011 (June
20-24, 2011, Cairns, Australia), to appear in the conference proceedings
(AIP
The flavour asymmetry of polarized anti-quarks in the nucleon
We present a study of the flavour asymmetry of polarized anti-quarks in the
nucleon using the meson cloud model. We include contributions both from the
vector mesons and the interference terms of pseudoscalar and vector mesons.
Employing the bag model, we first give the polarized valence quark distribution
of the meson and the interference distributions. Our calculations show
that the interference effect mildly increases the prediction for \Delta
\dbar(x)-\Delta \ubar(x) at intermediate region. We also discuss the
contribution of `Pauli blocking' to the asymmetry.Comment: 22 pages, LaTex, 5 PS figures. Version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C.
An appendix is added for expressions for the helicity dependent fluctuation
functions. An error in the programme for fluctuation function
f_{(\pi\rho)\Delta /N} is corrected, which increases numerical results by
about 10%. Unchanged conclusion
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