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A4 family symmetry and quark-lepton unification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-06 v2

Abstract

We present a model of quark and lepton masses and mixings based on A4 family symmetry, a discrete subgroup of an SO(3) flavour symmetry, together with Pati-Salam unification. It accommodates tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing via constrained sequential dominance with a particularly simple vacuum alignment mechanism emerging through the effective D-term contributions to the scalar potential.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610250,
  title  = {A4 family symmetry and quark-lepton unification},
  author = {Stephen F. King and Michal Malinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610250},
  year   = {2010}
}

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