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Charge specific baryon mass relations with deformed SU_q(3) flavor symmetry

TL;DR: In this article, a charge specific formula for the Cabibbo angle in terms of the deformation parameter $q$ and spin parity $J^P$ of the baryons is derived.
Abstract: The quantum group $SU_q(3)=U_q(su(3))$ is taken as a baryon flavor symmetry. Accounting for electromagnetic contributions to baryons masses to zeroth order, new charge specific $q$-deformed octet and decuplet baryon mass formulas are obtained. These new mass relations have errors of only 0.02\% and 0.08\% respectively; a factor of 20 reduction compared to the standard Gell-Mann-Okubo mass formulas. A new relation between the octet and decuplet baryon masses that is accurate to 1.2\% is derived. An explicit formula for the Cabibbo angle, taken to be $\frac{\pi}{14}$, in terms of the deformation parameter $q$ and spin parity $J^P$ of the baryons is obtained.
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TL;DR: In this article, the structural similarities between a recent braid-and Hurwitz algebraic description of the unbroken internal symmetries for a single generations of Standard Model fermions were recently identified.
Abstract: Some curious structural similarities between a recent braid- and Hurwitz algebraic description of the unbroken internal symmetries for a single generations of Standard Model fermions were recently identified. The non-trivial braid groups that can be represented using the four normed division algebras are $B_2$ and $B_3^c$, exactly those required to represent a single generation of fermions in terms of simple three strand ribbon braids. These braided fermion states can be identified with the basis states of the minimal left ideals of the Clifford algebra $C\ell(6)$, generated from the nested left actions of the complex octonions $\mathbb{C}\otimes\mathbb{O}$ on itself. That is, the ribbon spectrum can be related to octonion algebras. Some speculative ideas relating to ongoing research that attempts to construct a unified theory based on braid groups and Hurwitz algebras are discussed.

8 citations

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TL;DR: The role of quantum groups and braid groups in the description of Standard Model particles is discussed in this article, where some recent results on the use of the quantum group $SU_q(3)$ as a flavour symmetry are reviewed and a connection between two descriptions of standard model symmetries, one based on the normed division algebras and the other describing elementary matter as braided objects is presented.
Abstract: The role of quantum groups and braid groups in the description of Standard Model particles is discussed. Some recent results on the use of the quantum group $SU_q(3)$ as a flavour symmetry are reviewed and a connection between two descriptions of Standard Model symmetries, one based on the normed division algebras and the other describing elementary matter as braided objects, is presented.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the set of braided 3-belts that can be written in a braid only form in which all twisting is eliminated can be identified.
Abstract: The Helon model identifies Standard Model quarks and leptons with certain framed braids joined together at both ends by a connecting node (disk). These surfaces with boundary are called braided 3-belts (or simply belts). Twisting and braiding of ribbons composing braided 3-belts are interchangeable, and it was shown in the literature that any braided 3-belt can be written in a pure twist form, specified by a vector of three multiples of half integers [a,b,c], a topological invariant. This paper identifies the set of braided 3-belts that can be written in a braid only form in which all twisting is eliminated. For these braids an algorithm to calculate the braid word is determined which allows the braid only word of every braided 3-belt to be written in a canonical form. It is furthermore demonstrated that the set of braided 3-belts do not form a group, due to a lack of isogeny. The conditions under which the boundary of a braided 3-belt is a knot are determined, and a formula for the Jones polynomial for knotted boundaries is derived. Considering knotted boundaries makes it possible to relate the Helon model to a model of quarks and leptons in terms of quantum trefoil knots, understood as representation of the quantum group SUq(2). Associating representations of a quantum group to the boundary of braided belts provides a possible means of developing the gauge symmetries of interacting braided belts in future work.

3 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of a q-deformation of flavor symmetry on octet baryon magnetic moments is investigated by taking the quantum group Uq(su(3)) as a flavor symmetry and calculating expressions for the magnetic moments of the octet Baryons.
Abstract: The effect of a q-deformation of flavor symmetry on octet baryon magnetic moments is investigated by taking the quantum group Uq(su(3)) as a flavor symmetry and calculating expressions for the magnetic moments of the octet baryons. Using the experimental values for the magnetic moments of the proton, neutron, and Lambda baryons as input, the magnetic moments of the up, down, and strange quarks, and by extension those of the remaining octet baryons, depend on the value of the deformation parameter q. Plotting the least square error as a function of q we find the undeformed value q=1 is a local maximum. Nearby are a relative minimum (at q=0.610) and an absolute minimum (at q=1.774). The value q=1.774 gives an approximately 10% decrease in the least square error compared to the undeformed case. For this value of q the quark masses of the up and down quarks are calculated to be 331 MeV and 305 MeV respectively.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate how deforming the classical flavor group $SU(3) to the quantum group$SU_q(3)\equiv U(su(3))$ (a Hopf algebra) and taking into account electromagnetic mass splitting within isospin multiplets leads to new and exceptionally accurate baryon mass sum rules that agree perfectly with experimental data.
Abstract: Algebraic deformations provide a systematic approach to generalizing the symmetries of a physical theory through the introduction of new fundamental constants. The applications of deformations of Lie algebras and Hopf algebras to both spacetime and internal symmetries are discussed. As a specific example we demonstrate how deforming the classical flavor group $SU(3)$ to the quantum group $SU_q(3)\equiv U_q(su(3))$ (a Hopf algebra) and taking into account electromagnetic mass splitting within isospin multiplets leads to new and exceptionally accurate baryon mass sum rules that agree perfectly with experimental data.
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TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the current status of cosmological nucleosynthesis is given, where the baryon-to-photon ratio of deuterium and helium-4 is consistent with the independent determination of $\eta$ from observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
Abstract: A critical review is given of the current status of cosmological nucleosynthesis. In the framework of the Standard Model with 3 types of relativistic neutrinos, the baryon-to-photon ratio, $\eta$, corresponding to the inferred primordial abundances of deuterium and helium-4 is consistent with the independent determination of $\eta$ from observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. However the primordial abundance of lithium-7 inferred from observations is significantly below its expected value. Taking systematic uncertainties in the abundance estimates into account, there is overall concordance in the range $\eta = (5.7-6.7)\times 10^{-10}$ at 95% CL (corresponding to a cosmological baryon density $\Omega_B h^2 = 0.021 - 0.025$). The D and He-4 abundances, when combined with the CMB determination of $\eta$, provide the bound $N_ u=3.28 \pm 0.28$ on the effective number of neutrino species. Other constraints on new physics are discussed briefly.

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TL;DR: Aq-difference analogue of the universal enveloping algebra U(g) of a simple Lie algebra g is introduced in this article, and its structure and representations are studied in the simplest case g=sl(2).
Abstract: Aq-difference analogue of the universal enveloping algebra U(g) of a simple Lie algebra g is introduced. Its structure and representations are studied in the simplest case g=sl(2). It is then applied to determine the eigenvalues of the trigonometric solution of the Yang-Baxter equation related to sl(2) in an arbitrary finite-dimensional irreducible representation.

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TL;DR: In this article, the deformation theory for algebras is studied in terms of the set of structure constants as a parameter space, and an example justifying the choice of parameter space is given.
Abstract: CHAPTER I. The deformation theory for algebras 1. Infinitesimal deformations of an algebra 2. Obstructions 3. Trivial deformations 4. Obstructions to derivations and the squaring operation 5. Obstructions are cocycles 6. Additivity and integrability of the square 7. Restricted deformation theories and their cohomology theories 8. Rigidity of fields in the commutative theory CHAPTER II. The parameter space 1. The set of structure constants as parameter space for the deformation theory 2. Central algebras and an example justifying the choice of parameter space 3. The automorphism group as a parameter space, and examples of obstructions to derivations 4. A fiber space over the parameter space, and the upper semicontinuity theorem 5. An example of a restricted theory and the corresponding modular group CHAPTER III. The deformation theory for graded and filtered rings 1. Graded, filtered, and developable rings 2. The Hochschild theory for developable rings 3. Developable rings as deformations of their associated graded rings 4. Trivial deformations and a criterion for rigidity 5. Restriction to the commutative theory 6. Deformations of power series rings

1,565 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the κ-deformed Poincare quantum algebra proposed for particle physics has the structure of a Hopf algebra bicrossproduct U(so (1, 3)) T.

788 citations