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    • Mass extrapolation of quarks and leptons to higher generations

      N Barik

      Nuclear And Particle Physics Volume 16 Issue 5 May 1981 pp 403-408

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    • Keywords

       

      Quarks; leptons; generation; mass spectrum; flavour; top-quark

    • Abstract

       

      An empirical mass formula is tested for the basic fermion sequences of charged quarks and leptons. This relation is a generalization of Barut’s mass formula for the lepton sequence (e, μ, τ......). It is found that successful mass extrapolation to the third and possibly to other higher generations (N>2) can be obtained with the first and second generation masses as inputs, which predicts the top quark massmt to be around 20 GeV. This also leads to the mass ratios between members of two different sequences (i) and (i′) corresponding to the same higher generations (N>2).

    • Author Affiliations

       

      N Barik1

      1. Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar - 751 004, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      May 1981
      Manuscript received
      3 October 1980
      Manuscript revised
      10 February 1981

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