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Quark and lepton flavor structure in magnetized orbifold models at residual modular symmetric points

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study quark and lepton mass matrices derived from magnetized T2/Z2T^2/\mathbb{Z}_2 orbifold models. Quark and lepton masses have a large hierarchy. In addition, mixing angles are large in the lepton sector, while those are small in the quark sector. We find that this structure can be realized in certain flavor models, which are identified by the zero points of the zero-mode wave functions of fermions and Higgs modes. We classify such realistic flavor models. Fixed points τ=i\tau=i, e2πi/3e^{2\pi i/3} and ii\infty of the modulus τ\tau play a role in realizing a large mass hierarchy through our scenario, where residual SS, STST, and TT symmetries remain and the lightest Higgs modes can correspond to eigenstates of residual symmetries at the leading order. As a result, we find that there are 24 flavor models in total which can be realistic in a vicinity of SS-symmetric vacuum but no flavor models for STST and TT-symmetric vacua.

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@article{arxiv.2209.07249,
  title  = {Quark and lepton flavor structure in magnetized orbifold models at residual modular symmetric points},
  author = {Kouki Hoshiya and Shota Kikuchi and Tatsuo Kobayashi and Hikaru Uchida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07249},
  year   = {2022}
}

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52 pages