✎ Flavour puzzle [The Physics Travel Guide]

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====== Flavour puzzle ======

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Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party.
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<tabbox Student> 
  * [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9210250.pdf|The Fermion Mass Problem]] by K.S. Babu
  * [[https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/bitstream/2003/35777/1/Dissertation_Schumacher.pdf|A Model-Building Approach to the Origin of Flavor]] by E. Schuhmacher
  * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04071|Pieces of the Flavour Puzzle by Ferruccio Feruglio]]
<tabbox Researcher>

<blockquote>The Yukawa couplings express the flavour problem, i.e. our inability to compute quark and lepton masses and mixing angles. [...]

no significant progress has ever been made in computing quark and lepton masses and mixing angles or understanding the dynamical origin of their pattern. [...]  Given our failure in cracking the flavour problem, it is unlikely that its solution is simple and that it manifests itself in simple ways. Only crazy results in flavour physics have a chance to be true.

<cite>https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.07663.pdf#page23</cite>

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**Proposed Solutions:**

--> "all fermions are created equal"#

See [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269383905841|On the proposition that all fermions are created equal]] by Howard Georgi, Ann Nelson, Aneesh Manohar

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--> Flavor Symmetries#

For a great introduction, see this [[https://www.nikhef.nl/pub/theory/phd-theses/reinier_adelhart.pdf|thesis]].

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