Quark Masses: an Environmental Impact Statement

Quark Masses: an Environmental Impact Statement

Quark masses: An environmental impact statement Alejandro Jenkins Center for Theoretical Physics LNS, MIT Excited QCD 09 Zakopane, Poland Tuesday, 10 February, 2009 A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 1 / 30 Work discussed R. L. Jaffe, AJ, and I. Kimchi, arXiv:0809.1647 [hep-ph], to appear in PRD (2009). Also (briefly) A. Adams, AJ, and D. O’Connell, arXiv:0802.4081 [hep-ph] A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 2 / 30 Quark masses in the Standard Model In the SM, quark masses pv ¯ Lmass = guuu¯ + gd dd 2 p 2 depend on gu;d and on v = =, for Higgs potential 2 V (Φ) = 2ΦyΦ + ΦyΦ 2 Note ; ; gu;d are all free parameters of the theory A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 3 / 30 Quark masses in the Standard Model In the SM, quark masses pv ¯ Lmass = guuu¯ + gd dd 2 p 2 depend on gu;d and on v = =, for Higgs potential 2 V (Φ) = 2ΦyΦ + ΦyΦ 2 Note ; ; gu;d are all free parameters of the theory A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 3 / 30 TOE’s & landscapes Ideally, TOE would reproduce the SM at low energies and uniquely predict its parameters . but some parameters might be environmentally selected cf. Carter ’74; Barrow & Tipler ’86 Bayes’s theorem: p(fi gjobserver) / p(observerjfi g) ¢ p(fi g) String theory requires compactification of extra dimensions It now seems this can be done consistently in many ways, leading to different low-energy parameters cf. review by Douglas & Kachru ’06 Landscape of string vacua might, through eternal inflation, produce a multiverse A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 4 / 30 TOE’s & landscapes Ideally, TOE would reproduce the SM at low energies and uniquely predict its parameters . but some parameters might be environmentally selected cf. Carter ’74; Barrow & Tipler ’86 Bayes’s theorem: p(fi gjobserver) / p(observerjfi g) ¢ p(fi g) String theory requires compactification of extra dimensions It now seems this can be done consistently in many ways, leading to different low-energy parameters cf. review by Douglas & Kachru ’06 Landscape of string vacua might, through eternal inflation, produce a multiverse A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 4 / 30 TOE’s & landscapes Ideally, TOE would reproduce the SM at low energies and uniquely predict its parameters . but some parameters might be environmentally selected cf. Carter ’74; Barrow & Tipler ’86 Bayes’s theorem: p(fi gjobserver) / p(observerjfi g) ¢ p(fi g) String theory requires compactification of extra dimensions It now seems this can be done consistently in many ways, leading to different low-energy parameters cf. review by Douglas & Kachru ’06 Landscape of string vacua might, through eternal inflation, produce a multiverse A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 4 / 30 TOE’s & landscapes Ideally, TOE would reproduce the SM at low energies and uniquely predict its parameters . but some parameters might be environmentally selected cf. Carter ’74; Barrow & Tipler ’86 Bayes’s theorem: p(fi gjobserver) / p(observerjfi g) ¢ p(fi g) String theory requires compactification of extra dimensions It now seems this can be done consistently in many ways, leading to different low-energy parameters cf. review by Douglas & Kachru ’06 Landscape of string vacua might, through eternal inflation, produce a multiverse A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 4 / 30 TOE’s & landscapes Ideally, TOE would reproduce the SM at low energies and uniquely predict its parameters . but some parameters might be environmentally selected cf. Carter ’74; Barrow & Tipler ’86 Bayes’s theorem: p(fi gjobserver) / p(observerjfi g) ¢ p(fi g) String theory requires compactification of extra dimensions It now seems this can be done consistently in many ways, leading to different low-energy parameters cf. review by Douglas & Kachru ’06 Landscape of string vacua might, through eternal inflation, produce a multiverse A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 4 / 30 Fundamental vs. environmental quantities Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596) A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 5 / 30 Naturalness Geocentrism may be seen, in part, as a historical failure of naturalness: Source: ESA website A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 6 / 30 Naturalness, contd. Hierarchy ( 106) between Earth-Sun and Earth-star distances has an environmental explanation In the SM the cosmological constant Λ and Higgs 2 are dimensionful parameters, with unnaturally small values Many models proposed that could make 2 natural (LHC should have something to say about this soon) Weinberg ’87 suggested an environmental explanation for the smallness of Λ First to predict Λ > 0 before it was measured by Riess et al. & Perlmutter et al. ’98 A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 7 / 30 Naturalness, contd. Hierarchy ( 106) between Earth-Sun and Earth-star distances has an environmental explanation In the SM the cosmological constant Λ and Higgs 2 are dimensionful parameters, with unnaturally small values Many models proposed that could make 2 natural (LHC should have something to say about this soon) Weinberg ’87 suggested an environmental explanation for the smallness of Λ First to predict Λ > 0 before it was measured by Riess et al. & Perlmutter et al. ’98 A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 7 / 30 Naturalness, contd. Hierarchy ( 106) between Earth-Sun and Earth-star distances has an environmental explanation In the SM the cosmological constant Λ and Higgs 2 are dimensionful parameters, with unnaturally small values Many models proposed that could make 2 natural (LHC should have something to say about this soon) Weinberg ’87 suggested an environmental explanation for the smallness of Λ First to predict Λ > 0 before it was measured by Riess et al. & Perlmutter et al. ’98 A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 7 / 30 Naturalness, contd. Hierarchy ( 106) between Earth-Sun and Earth-star distances has an environmental explanation In the SM the cosmological constant Λ and Higgs 2 are dimensionful parameters, with unnaturally small values Many models proposed that could make 2 natural (LHC should have something to say about this soon) Weinberg ’87 suggested an environmental explanation for the smallness of Λ First to predict Λ > 0 before it was measured by Riess et al. & Perlmutter et al. ’98 A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 7 / 30 Naturalness, contd. Hierarchy ( 106) between Earth-Sun and Earth-star distances has an environmental explanation In the SM the cosmological constant Λ and Higgs 2 are dimensionful parameters, with unnaturally small values Many models proposed that could make 2 natural (LHC should have something to say about this soon) Weinberg ’87 suggested an environmental explanation for the smallness of Λ First to predict Λ > 0 before it was measured by Riess et al. & Perlmutter et al. ’98 A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 7 / 30 Environmental Higgs vev & Yukawas Agrawal, Barr, Donoghue & Seckel ’98 propose environmental ¨ < selection for Higgs v: 0 < v=v 5, holding gi ’s fixed Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Kachru ’05 suggest only the dimensionful SM parameters (2 and Λ) might scan significantly Only these are thought to be “technically unnatural” See Donoghue, Dutta & Ross ’05; and Hall, Salem & Watari ’07 for ideas about a landscape of Yukawas Quark masses in our world suggest logarithmic a priori: ΛQCD 0.01 MeV 0.1 MeV 1 MeV 10 MeV 100 MeV 1 GeV 10 GeV 100 GeV u d s c b t A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 8 / 30 Environmental Higgs vev & Yukawas Agrawal, Barr, Donoghue & Seckel ’98 propose environmental ¨ < selection for Higgs v: 0 < v=v 5, holding gi ’s fixed Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Kachru ’05 suggest only the dimensionful SM parameters (2 and Λ) might scan significantly Only these are thought to be “technically unnatural” See Donoghue, Dutta & Ross ’05; and Hall, Salem & Watari ’07 for ideas about a landscape of Yukawas Quark masses in our world suggest logarithmic a priori: ΛQCD 0.01 MeV 0.1 MeV 1 MeV 10 MeV 100 MeV 1 GeV 10 GeV 100 GeV u d s c b t A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 8 / 30 Environmental Higgs vev & Yukawas Agrawal, Barr, Donoghue & Seckel ’98 propose environmental ¨ < selection for Higgs v: 0 < v=v 5, holding gi ’s fixed Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Kachru ’05 suggest only the dimensionful SM parameters (2 and Λ) might scan significantly Only these are thought to be “technically unnatural” See Donoghue, Dutta & Ross ’05; and Hall, Salem & Watari ’07 for ideas about a landscape of Yukawas Quark masses in our world suggest logarithmic a priori: ΛQCD 0.01 MeV 0.1 MeV 1 MeV 10 MeV 100 MeV 1 GeV 10 GeV 100 GeV u d s c b t A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 8 / 30 Environmental Higgs vev & Yukawas Agrawal, Barr, Donoghue & Seckel ’98 propose environmental ¨ < selection for Higgs v: 0 < v=v 5, holding gi ’s fixed Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Kachru ’05 suggest only the dimensionful SM parameters (2 and Λ) might scan significantly Only these are thought to be “technically unnatural” See Donoghue, Dutta & Ross ’05; and Hall, Salem & Watari ’07 for ideas about a landscape of Yukawas Quark masses in our world suggest logarithmic a priori: ΛQCD 0.01 MeV 0.1 MeV 1 MeV 10 MeV 100 MeV 1 GeV 10 GeV 100 GeV u d s c b t A. Jenkins (MIT) Environmental Quark Masses Excited QCD ’09 8 / 30 Environmental Higgs vev & Yukawas Agrawal, Barr, Donoghue & Seckel ’98 propose environmental ¨ < selection for Higgs v: 0 < v=v 5, holding gi ’s fixed Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Kachru ’05 suggest only the dimensionful SM parameters (2 and Λ) might scan significantly Only these are thought to be “technically unnatural” See Donoghue, Dutta & Ross ’05; and Hall, Salem & Watari ’07 for ideas about a landscape of Yukawas Quark masses in our world suggest logarithmic a priori: ΛQCD 0.01 MeV 0.1 MeV 1 MeV 10 MeV 100 MeV 1 GeV 10 GeV 100 GeV u d s c b t A.

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