Professor Silvia Pascoli silvia.pascoli@durham.ac.uk
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The role of flavon cross couplings in leptonic flavour mixing
Pascoli, Silvia; Zhou, Ye-Ling
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Ye-Ling Zhou
Abstract
In models with discrete flavour symmetries, flavons are critical to realise specific flavour structures. Leptonic flavour mixing originates from the misalignment of flavon vacuum expectation values which respect different residual symmetries in the charged lepton and neutrino sectors. Flavon cross couplings are usually forbidden, in order to protect these symmetries. Contrary to this approach, we show that cross couplings can play a key role and give raise to necessary corrections to flavour-mixing patterns, including a non-zero value for the reactor angle and CP violation. For definiteness, we present two models based on A4. In the first model, all flavons are assumed to be real or pseudo-real, with 7 real degrees of freedom in the flavon sector in total. A sizable reactor angle associated with nearly maximal CP violation is achieved, and, as both originate from the same cross coupling, a sum rule results with a precise prediction for the value of the Dirac CP-violating phase. In the second model, the flavons are taken to be complex scalars, which can be connected with supersymmetric models and multi-Higgs models. The complexity properties of flavons provide new sources for generating the reactor angle. Models in this new approach introduce very few degrees of freedom beyond the Standard Model and can be more economical than those in the framework of extra dimension or supersymmetry.
Citation
Pascoli, S., & Zhou, Y. (2016). The role of flavon cross couplings in leptonic flavour mixing. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(06), Article 073. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282016%29073
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 8, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 13, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jun 13, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Jun 21, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Print ISSN | 1126-6708 |
Publisher | Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2016 |
Issue | 06 |
Article Number | 073 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282016%29073 |
Related Public URLs | http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00925 |
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