Minimal Flavor Unification via Multigenerational Peccei-Quinn Symmetry
- 4 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (1), 11-14
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.11
Abstract
A link between (i) the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, (ii) the canonical fermion mass matrix, and (iii) minimal grand unification is established. The effects of a global versus a local horizontal U(1) symmetry are analyzed. It is pointed out that the weak nonconservation in such a model has to be accounted for by Higgs exchanges. A possible bridge to composite models is noted.
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