Unlocking the Standard Model. II. 1 generation of quarks. Masses and couplings
Abstract
We continue investigating the Standard Model for one generation of fermions and two parity-transformed Higgs doublets K and H advocated for in a previous work, using the one-to-one correspondence, demonstrated there, between their components and bilinear quark operators. We show that all masses and couplings, in particular those of the two Higgs bosons and , are determined by low energy considerations. The mass of the "quasi-standard" Higgs boson, , is m ≈ mπ; it is coupled to u and d quarks with identical strengths. The mass of the lightest one, , is m ≈ mπ fπ22mW/g ≈\ 34\,KeV; it is very weakly coupled to matter except hadronic matter. The ratio of the two Higgs masses is that of the two scales involved in the problem, the weak scale σ=22mWg and the chiral scale v=fπ, which are also the respective vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs bosons. They can freely coexist and be accounted for. The dependence of m and m on mπ, that is, on quark masses, suggests their evolution when more generations are added. Fermions get their masses from both Higgs multiplets. The theory definitely stays in the perturbative regime.
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