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• TITLE: On Approximating Fermion Masses in Terms of Stationary Super-String States

  AUTHORS: Joseph Towe

  KEYWORDS: String Theory; Conformal Field Theory; Quarks; Super-Gravity

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.4 No.4, April 29, 2013

  ABSTRACT: AdS/CFT correspondence is adopted and fermion masses are modeled as analogues of Weyl curvature states, which occur by hypothesis when closed spin-2 strings sweep out closed world tubes. Admissible curvature states are established by gauge invariance and fundamental mass is attributed to admissible curvature. A consequent spectrum of masses forms an SU(3) symmetry that is invariant under appropriate realizations of the SUGRA GUT interaction. Finally the spin-h/2 nature of the masses that are attributed to curvature emerges as a necessary condition for the relevant SUGRA GUT realizations. Calibration of the proposed model reveals a spectrum of fermion masses that corresponds approximately to observation. Moreover, the proposed model predicts a new quark that is characterized by I3 = -1/2 and by a mass of about 30 GeV/c2.