FlavourHiggsGroup@ IIT(BHU)
FlavourHiggsGroup@ IIT(BHU)
In the realm of particle physics, the term "flavor" has nothing to do with taste. Rather, it refers to the different types or categories of fundamental particles within the same family. For example, quarks come in six distinct flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Similarly, leptons also exhibit six flavors, comprising three charged leptons—the electron, muon, and tau—and their corresponding neutrinos: the electron neutrino, muon neutrino, and tau neutrino. These flavors are a fundamental aspect of the Standard Model, and understanding their properties and interactions is central to addressing deeper questions about the structure of matter and the origin of mass.
Our research article "Solving the fermionic mass hierarchy of the standard model" has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20, and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
Our research article "Flavour bounds on the flavon of a minimal and a non-minimal Z2 x ZN symmetry" is in the 42nd percentile (ranked 213,286th) of the 393,103 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 82nd percentile (ranked 28th) of the 187 tracked articles of a similar age in The European Physical Journal C. This article is 1200 times downloaded so far from the journal website.