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Flavour Democracy in Strong Unification

Steven Abel, Steven King

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9804446

Abstract

We show that the fermion mass spectrum may naturally be understood in terms of flavour democratic fixed points in supersymmetric theories which have a large domain of attraction in the presence of "strong unification". Our approach provides an alternative to the approximate Yukawa texture zeroes of the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism. We discuss a particular model based on a broken gauged SU(3)L× SU(3)R family symmetry which illustrates our approach.

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