Physical Consequences of Nonabelian Duality in the Standard Model

摘要

Possible physical consequences of a recently discovered nonabelian dual symmetryare explored in the standard model. It is found that both Higgs Field and fermion generations can be assigned a natural place in the dual framework, with Higgs fields appearing as frames (or 'N-beins') in internal symmetry space, and generations appearing as spontaneously broken dual colour. Fermions then occur in exactly 3 generations and have a factorizable mass matrix which gives automatically one generation much heavier that the other two. The CKM matrix is the identity at zeroth order, but acquires mixing through high loop corrections. Preliminary considerations are given to calculating the CKM matrix and lower generation masses. New vector and Higgs bosons are predicted.