Anomalous Flavor U(1)X for Everything
Description
We present an ambitious model of flavor, based on an anomalous U(1)X gauge symmetry with one flavon, only two right-handed neutrinos and only two mass scales: Mgrav and m3/2. In particular, there are no new scales introduced for right-handed neutrino masses. The X-charges of the matter fields are such that R-parity is conserved exactly, higher-dimensional operators are sufficiently suppressed to guarantee a proton lifetime in agreement with experiment, and the phenomenology is viable for quarks, charged leptons, as well as neutrinos. In our model one of the three light neutrinos automatically is massless. The price we have to pay for this very successful model are highly fractional X-charges which can likely be improved with less restrictive phenomenological ansatze for mass matrices
Availability note (English)
Available from OSTI as DE00965356; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/965356-EJrfSW/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Issue
- no.Dec 2003
- Journal Page Range
- vp.
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 40108585
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- LEPTONS; LIFETIME; MATRICES; NEUTRINOS; PRICES; PROTONS; QUARKS; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUCLEONS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- AC02-05CH11231
- Notes
- Journal Publication Date: 28 September 2005
- Funding organization
- Physics Division (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- LBNL--54468