SU(9) Grand Unification of Flavor with Three Generations
- 12 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (20), 1460-1462
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.1460
Abstract
A model based on the group SU(9) is proposed to relate three quark-lepton generations. There is sufficient unification to give two new relations between the nine fermion masses. The guiding principle is to minimize the number of Higgs scalars necessary to obtain mass relations.Keywords
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