A New Approach to Flavor?

by Keith Dienes (U. Arizona)

Friday 1 Aug 2008, 10:30 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

The origin of flavor is one of the biggest mysteries of the Standard Model. Despite more than a half-century of data, we still have almost no explanation for family replication in the Standard Model. Many theoretical models can incorporate or accommodate this replication, but very few actually explain/predict/require it. In this talk, I will describe some recent work on a possible new approach towards explaining the origin of family replication in the Standard Model.