{ "id": "hep-ph/9812239", "version": "v1", "published": "1998-12-03T15:28:59.000Z", "updated": "1998-12-03T15:28:59.000Z", "title": "Fermion masses and symmetry breaking of a U(2) flavour symmetry", "authors": [ "Riccardo Barbieri", "Leonardo Giusti", "Lawrence J. Hall", "Andrea Romanino" ], "comment": "9 pages, uses amsmath.sty", "journal": "Nucl.Phys. B550 (1999) 32-40", "doi": "10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00195-9", "categories": [ "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "We show how a specific sequential breaking pattern of a U(2) flavour symmetry occurs automatically in a broad framework. The relative orientation in U(2) space of the spurion fields that breaks the U(2) symmetry is uniquely fixed, thus determining the form of the fermion mass matrices in a predictive way.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1998-12-03T15:28:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11.30.Hv", "12.15.Ff", "12.15.Hh" ], "keywords": [ "fermion masses", "symmetry breaking", "fermion mass matrices", "flavour symmetry occurs", "broad framework" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Elsevier", "journal": "Nucl. Phys. B" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 480403 } } }