A BCS Quark Mass Matrix

May 3, 1988
12 pages
Published in:
  • Mod.Phys.Lett.A 3 (1988) 1251,
  • Mod.Phys.Lett.A 4 (1989) 603 (erratum)
Report number:
  • CALT-68-1492

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Abstract: (WSP)
The quark mass gap and quark mass hierarchy is obtained by introducing a BCS interaction among ur-quarks. A 3×3 quark mass matrix with equal matrix elements, i.e., with all ur-flavors interacting with the same strength, has eigenvalues 0, 0 and 3; both the quark charge −1/3 and charge +2/3 systems with one heavy quark and two almost massless quarks resemble these eigenvalues. The physical mass splittings between the two lightest quarks come from higher-order corrections to the mass matrix which are obtained by fitting the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix VKM.
  • QUARK: MASS DIFFERENCE
  • MASS DIFFERENCE: QUARK
  • QUARK: MASS
  • MASS: QUARK
  • MODEL: SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
  • SUPERCONDUCTIVITY: MODEL
  • MIXING ANGLE: KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS