{ "id": "1105.0424", "version": "v1", "published": "2011-05-02T20:00:03.000Z", "updated": "2011-05-02T20:00:03.000Z", "title": "Gravitational Corrections to Fermion Masses in Grand Unified Theories", "authors": [ "Xavier Calmet", "Ting-Cheng Yang" ], "comment": "7 pages", "journal": "Phys.Rev.D84:037701,2011", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.84.037701", "categories": [ "hep-ph", "hep-th" ], "abstract": "We reconsider quantum gravitational threshold effects to the unification of fermion masses in Grand Unified Theories. We show that the running of the Planck mass can have a sizable effect on these thresholds which are thus much more important than naively expected. These corrections make any extrapolation from low energy measurements challenging.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2011-05-02T20:00:03.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "04.60.-m", "12.10.Kt", "11.10.Hi", "12.10.Dm" ], "keywords": [ "grand unified theories", "fermion masses", "gravitational corrections", "reconsider quantum gravitational threshold effects", "low energy measurements" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review D", "year": 2011, "month": "Aug", "volume": 84, "number": 3, "pages": "037701" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 898006, "adsabs": "2011PhRvD..84c7701C" } } }