Monday, February 25, 2013

1302.5576 (Mu-Chun Chen et al.)

Predictivity of models with spontaneously broken non-Abelian discrete
flavor symmetries
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Mu-Chun Chen, Maximilian Fallbacher, Yuji Omura, Michael Ratz, Christian Staudt
In a class of supersymmetric flavor models predictions are based on residual symmetries of some subsectors of the theory such as those of the charged leptons and neutrinos. However, the vacuum expectation values of the so-called flavon fields generally modify the K\"ahler potential of the setting, thus changing the predictions. We derive simple analytic formulae that allow us to understand the impact of these corrections on the predictions for the masses and mixing parameters. Furthermore, we discuss the effects on the vacuum alignment and on flavor changing neutral currents. Our results can also be applied to non--supersymmetric flavor models.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5576

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