Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-12-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
6 pages, improvements of c- coefficients and presentation, no change of the light Higgs mass value
Scientific paper
The combination of flavor symmetries with grand unification is considered: GUT $ \times$ flavor . To accommodate three generations the flavor group SO(3) is used. All fermions transform as 3-vectors under this group. The Yukawa couplings are obtained from vacuum expectation values of flavon fields. For the flavon fields (singlets with respect to the GUT group) and the Higgs fields (singlets with respect to the generation group) a simple form for the effective potentials is postulated. It automatically leads to spontaneous symmetry breaking for these scalar fields. Discrete S4 transformations relate the different locations of the minima of the potentials.These potentials can be used to describe the hierarchy of the well known up quark mass spectrum. Also the huge hierarchy of the masses of the Higgs fields in grand unified models can be parametrized in this way. It leads to a prediction of the mass of the lightest Higgs boson in terms of its vacuum expectation value $v_0$: $ m_{Higgs} = \frac{v_0}{\sqrt{2}} = 123 GeV$.
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