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Quark masses and mixing from Modular $S'_4$ with Canonical K\"ahler Effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-04-03 v1

Abstract

We propose a quark flavor model based on modular S4S'_4 with a general CP symmetry. CP violation in the quark sector is entirely realized by the modulus τ\langle \tau \rangle. We show that the canonical normalization induced by the K\"ahler metric plays a crucial role in reproducing the observed hierarchies, while maintaining coupling constants of order O(1)\mathcal{O}(1). The minimal model achieves a great fit to the quark sector data, which we take as the PDG 2024 data extrapolated to the GUT scale.

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@article{arxiv.2604.01422,
  title  = {Quark masses and mixing from Modular $S'_4$ with Canonical K\"ahler Effects},
  author = {Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas and Manuel Paiva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01422},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures