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Yukawa interactions, flavor symmetry, and non-canonical K\"{a}hler potential

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the origin of fermion mass hierarchy and flavor mixing in the standard model, paying attention to flavor symmetries and fermion kinetic terms. There is a possibility that the hierarchical flavor structure of quarks and charged leptons originates from non-canonical types of fermion kinetic terms in the presence of flavor symmetric Yukawa interactions. A flavor symmetry can be hidden in the form of non-unitary bases in the standard model. The structure of K\"{a}hler potential can become a touchstone of new physics.

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@article{arxiv.1808.06315,
  title  = {Yukawa interactions, flavor symmetry, and non-canonical K\"{a}hler potential},
  author = {Yoshiharu Kawamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06315},
  year   = {2019}
}

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21 pages, title changed, typos corrected, and appendices added