A New Empirical Approach to Lepton and Quark Masses
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Anewempiricalapproachtoleptonandquarkmasses Kevin Loch⇤ (Dated: 2017 February 27, updated November 11) 2 3 Aleptonratiowithasmalldimensionlessresidualke = mem⌧ /mµ and mass scaling factor ↵f =27me/m⌧ are used to construct empirical formulas for charged leptons, left-handed neutrinos and quarks. The predicted masses are in excellent agreement with known experimental values and constraints. PACS numbers: 14.60.Pq, 12.15.Ff, 12.10.Kt I. INTRODUCTION 3500:1. If this is not just a coincidence we can attempt to find factors that cancel out with this formula to learn One outstanding problem in modern physics is the more about the underlying structure. We can then at- seemingly unrelated particle masses that exist as free tempt to apply those factors to search for similar struc- parameters in the standard model. Numerous attempts tures in other sectors. have been made over the years to derive a systematic Mac Gregor proposed using different exponents of the mathematical relationship between these masses, most QED coupling constant to explain fermion lifetimes and famously by Yoshio Koide with his charged lepton for- mass relationships using the zero energy scale ↵QED(0) mula [1, 2] [26, 27]. While we have not found convincing relation- ships with ↵QED(0) we do find m + m + m 2 e µ ⌧ m K = 2 . (1) e (pme + pmµ + pm⌧ ) ' 3 ↵f = 27 (3) m⌧ While this approximation works for charged leptons, and 1 interesting with a value ↵f− 128.786. This is close appears to work for some combinations of quarks with ' 1 2 ↵− (M )= running masses, it does not work for neutrinos or at- to the effective QED coupling constant QED Z tempt to relate all fundamental fermions in a consistent 128.944 [28]. Despite the similarity in value to an ef- manner. It does however hint at the possibility of find- fective QED coupling constant we are assuming that ↵f ing other more fundamental relationships. Indeed, Koide is a separate parameter related only to mass generation and others [1–24] have used it as inspiration for extended and not electric charge. With (2) and (3) we can derive models to cover other fermions. lepton formulas While these extended Koide models are interesting we me present an alternative structure for charged leptons that mµ =9 1 2 , (4) k 3 ↵ 3 is easily applied to other sectors. we find these formu- e f las appear to relate all fundamental lepton and quark pole (physical) masses. This allows precise predictions me m⌧ = 27 . (5) of neutrino and quark pole masses. If correct this would ↵f significantly reduce the number of free parameters in the standard model (extended for neutrinos with mass). With our choice of definitions for ke and ↵f we have dis- covered an interesting and surprisingly simple charged lepton mass structure that could be used to look for sim- II. CHARGED LEPTONS ilar patterns in other sectors. We begin by considering the small dimensionless resid- ual value in a charged lepton structure proposed by Ter- III. NEUTRINO SECTOR azawa [25] We will now use ↵f and a sector structure formula similar to (2) to look for formulas for left handed neu- 2 mem⌧ trinos and predict mass state values for them. While ke = 3 1.37. (2) mµ ' neutrino mass states have not been directly measured yet numerous neutrino oscillation experiments have es- As with the Koide formula most of the mass differences tablished increasingly refined limits on neutrino squared cancel despite the input masses having a range of over mass differences [29]. Cosmological models also put con- straints on the sum of the three mass states [30]. By looking for equations of similar form to (4) and (5) and testing against the experimental neutrino constraints we ⇤ [email protected] can identify candidate neutrino mass formulas. Given 2 o that the experimental bounds on the neutrino mass states with ✓ke⌫ 24.42 . This is smaller than the weak mixing ' o ⇡ have them much closer together than the charged leptons angle ✓W 28.17 by approximately 48 radians. If the ' ⇡ we assume the same exponent of ↵f would need to ap- relationship is exactly ✓W = ✓ke⌫ + 48 then it would be 2 pear in each formula. By also using the same integer possible to calculate sin ✓W =0.222928(26) and mW = coefficients as the charged lepton formulas we find a sur- 80.3834(32) MeV,anorderofmagnitudemoreprecise prisingly close match to the experimental squared mass than previously known. differences when setting the neutrino residual k 6.64. ⌫ ' This results in left-handed neutrino sector formulas IV. QUARK SECTOR 2 m1m k = 3 6.64. (6) ⌫ m3 ' We will now attempt to apply the techniques we used 2 relating masses in the lepton sector to quarks. The quark sector residual formulas similar to (2) and (6) are 4 3 2 m1 = ↵f me 1.86 10− eV/c , (7) ' ⇥ 2 mdmb kd = 3 , (17) 4 ms ↵f 3 2 m2 =9 1 me 8.90 10− eV/c , (8) 3 ' ⇥ k⌫ 2 mumtop ku = 3 . (18) mc 4 2 2 m3 = 27↵f me 5.02 10− eV/c . (9) ' ⇥ While most attempts to find relationships between lep- These proposed masses give squared mass differences of tons and quarks use renormalized running masses we 2 5 2 4 have surprisingly found the best overall results using pole ∆m 7.56 10− eV /c , (10) 21 ' ⇥ masses for the heavy quarks. The deconfined nature 2 3 2 4 ∆m 2.51 10− eV /c , (11) of the top quark has enabled It’s mass to be measured 31 ' ⇥ 2 3 2 4 through decay products in particle collision experiments. ∆m32 2.44 10− eV /c , (12) ' ⇥ The best fit we have found to the global average mtop and the sum of all three mass states pole mass using ↵f and simple coefficients is 2 2 me 2 ⌃m⌫ =6.09 10− eV/c . (13) mtop = 3 173.72 GeV/c . (19) '⇥ 2⇡↵f ' These predicted values are in excellent agreement with recent global analysis of oscillation experiments [29, 31] Several different analysis modes exists on data from the for normal mass ordering (m⌫1 <m⌫2 <m⌫3 )andthe ongoing top quark experiments at the LHC with a com- sum is just below cosmological model limits [30]. A com- prehensive summary in [32]. Our predicted pole mass is parison of our predicted values to experiments is shown an excellent match for recent analysis including the 2016 PDG pole mass average of m = 173.5 1.1GeV/c2 in table I. Remarkably, these equations have the identical top ± integer coefficients (1, 9, 27) as our charged lepton formu- [31]. We also have a particularly close match to the cen- +1.0 las and also satisfy a left handed neutrino sector struc- ter value of Mt = 173.7 1.5 1.4 0.5 reported in [33]. ± ± − ture equation similar to (2) for charged leptons. Right For the bottom and charm quarks we target the pole handed sterile neutrinos, if the exist do not yet have reli- masses derived from perturbative QCD MS mass analysis able constraints established from which we could search from collider experiments. The best formulas we have for similar relationships. found using ↵f and relatively simple coefficients for the At this point we must ask why the sector residual fac- bottom and charm quarks are tors ke and k⌫ only appear as terms in the second gener- me 2 ation and if their values are related? While we do not yet mb = 1 4.78 GeV/c , (20) 2 2 ' have an answer to the first question, the second may be ⇡ ↵f answered by looking at the sum of the lepton residuals me 2 k` = ke + k⌫ 8. (14) mc =2 1 1.69 GeV/c . (21) ' 3 2 ' ku ↵f If their sum is exactly 8 we can express the residuals with an angle ✓ke⌫ such that ku = 16 (22) 2 k⌫ = 8cos ✓ke⌫ , (15) These predicted pole masses are in excellent agreement with recent pole mass evaluations of mb =4.78 k = 8sin2✓ , ± e ke⌫ (16) 0.06 GeV and m =1.67 0.07 GeV [31]. c ± 3 For the light quarks perturbative QCD does not pro- pare them directly. The quark sector residuals can be vide reliable pole masses so we are left to extrapolate expressed in terms of an angle ✓ 19.47o such that kud ' formulas from the heavy quarks. Having proposed for- 2 mulas for mtop and mc we can extract from (18) kd = 144cos ✓kud , (26) ⇡2 2 2 mu = me 2.52 MeV/c . k = 144sin ✓ . (27) 2 ' u kud While this value is close to the lattice theory derived MS Looking at different combinations of the lepton and quark mass commonly quoted m 2.2MeV/c2,wecaution residuals we find that u ' against comparing our predicted light quark pole masses kd to renormalized light quark masses directly. For the down k` = =8, (28) quark we assume a similar structure to our up quark ku formula and a ratio m /m 0.5.Withthatcriteria u d ' our proposed formulas for the down and strange quarks ku are =2. (29) k` m =⇡2m 5.04 MeV/c2, (23) d e ' V. COMBINED VIEW 1 ⇡ 3 me 2 ms = 1 4 96.6MeV/c , (24) k 3 ↵ 3 ' While the preceding formulas in terms of me are conve- d f nient for calculating precision predicted values it is more interesting to view them together in terms of the Higgs k = 128. (25) vacuum expectation value v 246.22 GeV [31]. With the d ' top quark Yukawa coupling y = p2m /v 0.99779 we t top ' These are also close to the lattice theory MS masses can rewrite all of our proposed formulas in terms of yt though as mentioned before it is not appropriate to com- and v: 7 ytv 3 ytv 3 3 ytv 3 3 ytv m⌫ = 2⇡↵ ,me = 2⇡↵ ,md = 2⇡ ↵ ,mu = ⇡ ↵ , 1 f p2 f p2 f p2 f p2 7 4 5 7 3 3 3 2⇡↵f ytv 2⇡↵f ytv 2⇡ ↵f ytv ⇡↵f ytv m⌫2 =9 1 ,mµ =9 1 ,ms = 1 ,mc = 1 , 3 p2 0 3 1 p2 0 3 1 p2 3 p2 k⌫ ! ke kd ku ! @ A @ A 7 ytv 2 ytv 1 ytv ytv m⌫ = 27 2⇡↵ ,m⌧ = 27 2⇡↵ ,mb = 2⇡ 2 ↵f ,mtop = .