2000/06/21 by David Dooling, Dooling, David, Kyungsik Kang +1
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0006256
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openalex publication_date 2000/06/21 · arxiv created 2000/06/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Using the resolution of the gauge hierarchy problem recently proposed by Randall and Sundrum, we find a natural explanation for the observed fermion masses and mixings of the three Standard Model (SM) generations. Localizing massless SM matter generations on neighboring 3-branes in an extra dimensional world leads to effective four dimensional masses and mixings from the coupling of the fermions with the background metric. We find that the positions of the 3-branes required to solve the gauge hierachy problem simultaneously reproduces phenomenologically acceptable fermion masses and mixings.