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Right unitarity triangles and tri-bimaximal mixing from discrete symmetries and unification

Right unitarity triangles and tri-bimaximal mixing from discrete symmetries and unification
Right unitarity triangles and tri-bimaximal mixing from discrete symmetries and unification
We propose new classes of models which predict both tri-bimaximal lepton mixing and a right-angled Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) unitarity triangle, α ≈ 90°. The ingredients of the models include a supersymmetric (SUSY) unified gauge group such as SU(5), a discrete family symmetry such as A4 or S4, a shaping symmetry including products of Z2 and Z4 groups as well as spontaneous CP violation. We show how the vacuum alignment in such models allows a simple explanation of α ≈ 90° by a combination of purely real or purely imaginary vacuum expectation values (vevs) of the flavons responsible for family symmetry breaking. This leads to quark mass matrices with 1–3 texture zeros that satisfy the “phase sum rule” and lepton mass matrices that satisfy the “lepton mixing sum rule” together with a new prediction that the leptonic CP violating oscillation phase is close to either 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270° depending on the model, with neutrino masses being purely real (no complex Majorana phases). This leads to the possibility of having right-angled unitarity triangles in both the quark and lepton sectors.
0550-3213
477-504
Antusch, S.
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King, Stephen F.
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Luhn, Christoph
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Spinrath, M.
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King, Stephen F.
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Antusch, S., King, Stephen F., Luhn, Christoph and Spinrath, M. (2011) Right unitarity triangles and tri-bimaximal mixing from discrete symmetries and unification. Nuclear Physics B, 850 (3), 477-504. (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.05.005).

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We propose new classes of models which predict both tri-bimaximal lepton mixing and a right-angled Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) unitarity triangle, α ≈ 90°. The ingredients of the models include a supersymmetric (SUSY) unified gauge group such as SU(5), a discrete family symmetry such as A4 or S4, a shaping symmetry including products of Z2 and Z4 groups as well as spontaneous CP violation. We show how the vacuum alignment in such models allows a simple explanation of α ≈ 90° by a combination of purely real or purely imaginary vacuum expectation values (vevs) of the flavons responsible for family symmetry breaking. This leads to quark mass matrices with 1–3 texture zeros that satisfy the “phase sum rule” and lepton mass matrices that satisfy the “lepton mixing sum rule” together with a new prediction that the leptonic CP violating oscillation phase is close to either 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270° depending on the model, with neutrino masses being purely real (no complex Majorana phases). This leads to the possibility of having right-angled unitarity triangles in both the quark and lepton sectors.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 14 May 2011
Published date: 21 September 2011
Organisations: Theoretical Partical Physics Group

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Local EPrints ID: 338142
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/338142
ISSN: 0550-3213
PURE UUID: 6a9cc444-d89b-4cbd-91b8-b20106b5d53a

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Author: S. Antusch
Author: Stephen F. King
Author: Christoph Luhn
Author: M. Spinrath

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