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Flavour physics without flavour symmetries

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-04-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We quantitatively analyze a quark-lepton flavour model derived from a six-dimensional supersymmetric theory with SO(10)×U(1)SO(10)\times U(1) gauge symmetry, compactified on an orbifold with magnetic flux. Two bulk 16\mathbf{16}-plets charged under the U(1)U(1) provide the three quark-lepton generations whereas two uncharged 10\mathbf{10}-plets yield two Higgs doublets. At the orbifold fixed points mass matrices are generated with rank one or two. Moreover, the zero modes mix with heavy vectorlike split multiplets. The model possesses no flavour symmetries. Nevertheless, there exist a number of relations between Yukawa couplings, remnants of the underlying GUT symmetry and the wave function profiles of the zero modes, which lead to a prediction of the light neutrino mass scale, mν1103m_{\nu_1} \sim 10^{-3} eV and heavy Majorana neutrino masses in the range from 101210^{12} GeV to 101410^{14} GeV. The model successfully includes thermal leptogenesis.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06862,
  title  = {Flavour physics without flavour symmetries},
  author = {Wilfried Buchmuller and Ketan M. Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06862},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Minor additions; Published version

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