Published April 11, 2008
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Quark and Lepton Masses from Gaussian Landscapes
Abstract
The flavor structure of the standard model (SM) might arise from random selection on a landscape. We propose a class of simple models, "Gaussian landscapes," where Yukawa couplings derive from overlap integrals of Gaussian wave functions on extra-dimensions. Statistics of vacua are generated by scanning the peak positions of these zero-modes, giving probability distributions for all flavor observables. Gaussian landscapes can account for all observed flavor patterns with few free parameters. Although they give broad probability distributions, the predictions are correlated and accounting for measured parameters sharpens the distributions of future neutrino measurements.
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©2008 The American Physical Society. (Received 9 August 2007; revised 10 January 2008; published 10 April 2008) This work was supported in part by the NSF Grant No. PHY-04-57315 (L.J.H.), the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098 (L.J.H.) and Contract No. DE-FG03-92ER40701 (M.P.S., T.W.), and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (T.W.).Files
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