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$\mathrm{Sp}(6)$ Unifying Deconstructed $\mathrm{SU}(2)$'s

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-31 v1

Abstract

Understanding the origin of flavour hierarchies in the Standard Model remains an open problem, motivating extensions with non-trivial flavour symmetries. We unify deconstructed weak isospin SU(2)L3\mathrm{SU}(2)_\mathrm{L}^3 into an Sp(6)L\mathrm{Sp}(6)_\mathrm{L} symmetry at a high scale vSv_S. The three generations of Standard Model (SM) left-handed doublets are unified into a single fundamental representation of Sp(6)L\mathrm{Sp}(6)_\mathrm{L}. In addition to two BSM triplets from the breaking of SU(2)L3\mathrm{SU}(2)_\mathrm{L}^3, the enlarged symmetry predicts six additional gauge bosons below the unification scale: three SU(2)L\mathrm{SU}(2)_\mathrm{L} triplets and three singlets, which induce flavour transitions in both the quark and lepton sectors, even in the presence of mass-gauge alignment. We derive updated bounds on the intermediate breaking scale v12v_{12} of SU(2)L3\mathrm{SU}(2)_\mathrm{L}^3 in the presence of the unification scale vSv_S, mapping exclusions in the (v12,r)(v_{12}, r) parameter space with r=vS2/v122r = v_S^2 / v_{12}^2. The most stringent constraints arise from precision flavour observables involving first- and second-generation transitions, including neutral meson mixing (K0Kˉ0K^0 - \bar{K}^0, D0Dˉ0D^0 - \bar{D}^0), μ3e\mu \to 3e and μe\mu \to e conversion in nuclei. These measurements probe scales well beyond direct collider reach and imply v12550 TeVv_{12} \gtrsim 550 ~\mathrm{TeV} for small r1r \approx 1, while for r100r\gtrsim100 the bound relaxes to v12150 TeVv_{12} \gtrsim 150~\mathrm{TeV}, recovering the limits of the SU(2)L3\mathrm{SU}(2)_\mathrm{L}^3 model. Additionally we include projections from Mu3e and COMET-I and -II experiments which show promising further reach into the parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.2603.27359,
  title  = {$\mathrm{Sp}(6)$ Unifying Deconstructed $\mathrm{SU}(2)$'s},
  author = {Alastair Gosnay and David J Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27359},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

44 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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