Published December 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

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

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