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# Invariant approach to CP in family symmetry models

Branco, Gustavo C., Varzielas, Ivo de Medeiros and King, Steve F. (2015) Invariant approach to CP in family symmetry models. Physical Review D, 92.

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## Abstract

We propose the use of basis invariants, valid for any choice of CP transformation, as a powerful approach to studying specific models of CP violation in the presence of discrete family symmetries. We illustrate the virtues of this approach for examples based on $A_4$ and $\Delta(27)$ family symmetries. For $A_4$, we show how to elegantly obtain several known results in the literature. In $\Delta(27)$ we use the invariant approach to identify how explicit (rather than spontaneous) CP violation arises, which is geometrical in nature, i.e. persisting for arbitrary couplings in the Lagrangian.

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pdf - Accepted Manuscript

Published date: 13 August 2015
Additional Information: 4 pages plus references. v2: to be published in PRD
Keywords: hep-ph
Organisations: Theory Group

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 410456
URI: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410456
ISSN: 1550-7998
PURE UUID: 28ce9b6a-9d65-47e2-9254-0d21d79dfb3b

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 08 Jun 2017 16:31

## Contributors

Author: Gustavo C. Branco
Author: Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas
Author: Steve F. King