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Radiative Mass Mechanism: Addressing the Flavour Hierarchy and Strong CP Puzzle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a class of models based on the parity invariant Left-Right Symmetric Model (LRSM), which incorporates the mechanism of radiative generation of fermion masses while simultaneously possessing the solution to the Strong CP problem. A flavour non-universal gauged abelian symmetry is imposed on top of LRSM, which helps in inducing the masses of second and first-generation fermions at one-loop and two-loop, respectively, and thereby reproduces the hierarchical spectrum of the masses. Parity invariance requires the vanishing of the strong CP parameter at the zeroth order, and the non-zero contribution arises at the two-loop level, which is in agreement with the experimental constraints. The minimal model predicts flavour symmetry breaking scale and the SU(2)RSU(2)_R symmetry breaking scale at the same level. flavour non-universality of the new gauge interaction leads to various flavour-changing transitions both in quarks and leptonic sectors and, therefore, has various phenomenologically interesting signatures. The model predicts a new physics scale near 10810^8 GeV or above for phenomenological consistent solutions. This, in turn, restricts strong CP phase θˉ1014\bar{\theta} \lesssim 10^{-14} as the parity breaking scale and flavour scale are related in the minimal framework.

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@article{arxiv.2411.13385,
  title  = {Radiative Mass Mechanism: Addressing the Flavour Hierarchy and Strong CP Puzzle},
  author = {Gurucharan Mohanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.13385},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v0: 19 pages, 1 figure, 1 Table; v1: typos fixed, discussion of section V rephrased for clarity and a captioned figure added, appendix B extended, conclusion remains same, published version