Jay R. Yablon

A Gordon-Like Magnetic Moment Decomposition for Fermion Mass PDF (NEW, Added 3/11/2005)

NOTE; THIS TEXT BELOW DUPLICATES WHAT IS SAID ON THE MAIN PAGE

This working paper contains a first attempt to do a Gordon-Like Magnetic Moment Decomposition for Fermion Mass, which I believe will ultimately be necessary to obtain an exact fit with the experimental mass data. I was motivated in this direction by a couple of folks who have been playing around with Fermion masses and magnetic moments on http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=46055&page=7&pp=15. In particular, they found that certain lepton magnetic moments came very close to the ratio of certain lepton masses divided by certain electroweak bosons, but were worried that their mass formulas did not have any perturbative expansion as is expected for the magnetic moments. They observed that the draft result in this author’s Fermion Mass paper restored the missing perturbation loops to their theory. And their work suggested to me that any exact prediction of the Fermion masses is likely to require consideration of generating some part of the mass through magnetic moments, and that magnetic moment may in fact be what is needed to generate a small, non-zero mass for the neutrino which otherwise cannot acquire mass – at least through what has been laid out so far – because it lacks an electric charge, i.e., its Q=0.

I would like to see if this decomposition can help these folks complete their efforts to characterize the magnetic moment, and whether it can be used to help me complete the Fermion mass fit being attempted here.