On phenomenological relations for masses and mixing parameters of quarks and leptons

TL;DR

This paper analyzes phenomenological relationships between fundamental constants in the extended Standard Model, identifying correlations between quark and lepton sectors, and estimates neutrino masses and mixing parameters within a grand unification framework.

Contribution

It introduces new phenomenological relationships linking neutrino masses and mixing angles, and explores their implications for grand unification and sterile neutrino mass estimates.

Findings

Confirmation of quark-lepton complementarity for mixing angles

Discovery of a relationship between neutrino masses and mixing angles

Estimates of sterile neutrino masses using the seesaw mechanism

Abstract

A comparative analysis of a number of phenomenological relationships between constants of the extended Standard Model of electromagnetic, strong and weak interactions of fundamental particles (hereinafter referred to as the extended Standard Model) is carried out to detect possible correlations between constants in the quark and lepton sectors. The presence of such correlations may indicate connections between constants within a more general theory than the extended Standard Model. Phenomenological relationships between masses of current and constituent quarks and mixing angles are considered. A phenomenological relationship between neutrino masses and neutrino mixing angle is found. The quark-lepton complementarity relationship for quark and neutrino mixing angles is confirmed. A typical estimate of the accuracy of such relationships is given. Estimates of the masses of sterile (right-handed) neutrinos are obtained at the phenomenological level using the seesaw mechanism. In this case, it is assumed that the values of the active neutrino masses depend on three characteristic scales, and the sum of the active neutrino masses is limited from above by $0.06$~eV. An example of a grand unification theory and possible stages of spontaneous breaking of its gauge symmetry to the level of gauge symmetry of the extended Standard Model due to additional Higgs particles are considered.