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arxiv: 1512.06349 · v2 · pith:SRSUNYSLnew · submitted 2015-12-20 · ✦ hep-ph

Explorations of two empirical formulae for fermion masses

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Two empirical formulae for the lepton and quark masses (i.e. Kartavtsev's extended Koide formulae), $K_l=(\sum_l m_l)/(\sum_l\sqrt{m_l})^2=2/3$ and $K_q=(\sum_q m_q)/(\sum_q\sqrt{m_q})^2=2/3$, are explored in this paper. For the lepton sector, we show that $K_l=2/3$, only if the uncertainty of the tauon mass is relaxed to about $2\sigma$ confidence level, and the neutrino masses can consequently be extracted with the current experimental data. For the quark sector, the extended Koide formula should only be applied to the running quark masses, and $K_q$ is found to be rather insensitive to the renormalization effects in a large range of energy scales from GeV to $10^{12}$ GeV. However, $K_q$ is always slightly larger than $2/3$, but the discrepancy is merely about $5\%$.

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