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Finite Family Groups for Fermionic and Leptoquark Mixing Patterns

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-19 v2

Abstract

We employ a bottom-up and model-independent technique to search for non-Abelian discrete flavour symmetries capable of predicting viable CKM and PMNS matrices alongside of special patterns of leptoquark couplings. In particular, we analyze patterns derived when an ultra-violet flavour theory is assumed to break to global Abelian symmetries in Standard Model fermion masses and new Yukawa-like terms sourced by the leptoquark representation. The phenomenology of different classes of these `simplified models' can be explored without reference to explicit model-building assumptions, e.g. the nature of flavour symmetry breaking or any additional field content associated to it, and are also capable of explaining hints of lepton non-universality in RK()\mathcal{R}_{K^{(\star)}}. Assuming experimentally interesting CKM and PMNS matrix elements, our algorithm finds an abundance of predictive non-Abelian flavour groups and therefore provides promising directions for future model building in the flavoured leptoquark space, regardless of whether the anomalous RK()\mathcal{R}_{K^{(\star)}} measurements withstand further experimental scrutiny.

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@article{arxiv.1906.11270,
  title  = {Finite Family Groups for Fermionic and Leptoquark Mixing Patterns},
  author = {Jordan Bernigaud and Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas and Jim Talbert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11270},
  year   = {2020}
}

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version published in JHEP

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