A Random Clockwork of Flavor
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-11-20 v1
Abstract
We propose a simple clockwork model of flavor which successfully generates the Standard Model flavor hierarchies from random order-one couplings. With very few parameters we achieve distributions of models in excellent agreement with observation. We explain in some detail the interpretation of our mechanism as random localization of zero modes in theory space. The scale of the vectorlike fermions is mostly constrained by lepton flavor violation with secondary constraints arising from rare meson decays.
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@article{arxiv.1911.08476,
title = {A Random Clockwork of Flavor},
author = {Fernando Abreu de Souza and Gero von Gersdorff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08476},
year = {2019}
}
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27 pages + appendices,