1996/03/28 by C.D. Froggatt, Colin Froggatt, Froggatt, Colin
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9603432
uuencoded 15 page LaTeX file plus 7 postscript figures, uses psfig.sty and epsf.sty; to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics, Corfu, 3 - 24 September 1995
arxiv created 1996/03/28 · openalex publication_date 1996/03/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent developments on approaches to the quark lepton mass problem are reviewed. In particular we discuss dynamical calculations of the top quark mass at (a) the infrared quasifixed point of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model renormalisation group equations, and (b) a strongly first order critical point of the Standard Model effective potential. The phenomenology of symmetric mass matrix ansätze with texture zeros at the unification scale is also considered. The underlying chiral symmetry presumed responsible for the fermion mass hierarchy is discussed, with particular reference to superstring based models.