Published February 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Fermion masses and flavor mixings and strong CP problem

Creators

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 (China)

Description

For all the success of the Standard Model (SM), it is on the verge of being surpassed. In this regard we argue, by showing a minimal flavor-structured model based on the non-Abelian discrete SL2(F3) symmetry, that U(1) mixed-gravitational anomaly cancellation could be of central importance in constraining the fermion contents of a new chiral gauge theory. Such anomaly-free condition together with the SM flavor structure demands a condition k1X1/2=k2X2 with Xi being a charge of U(1)Xi and ki being an integer, both of which are flavor dependent. We show that axionic domain-wall condition NDW with the anomaly free-condition depends on both U(1)X charged quark and lepton flavors; the seesaw scale congruent to the scale of Peccei–Quinn symmetry breakdown can be constrained through constraints coming from astrophysics and particle physics. Then the model extended by SL2(F3)×U(1)X symmetry can well be flavor-structured in a unique way that NDW=1 with the U(1)X mixed-gravitational anomaly-free condition demands additional Majorana fermion and the flavor puzzles of SM are well delineated by new expansion parameters expressed in terms of U(1)X charges and U(1)X-[SU(3)C]2 anomaly coefficients. And the model provides remarkable results on neutrino (hierarchical mass spectra and unmeasurable neutrinoless-double-beta decay rate together with the predictions on atmospheric mixing angle and leptonic Dirac CP phase favored by the recent long-baseline neutrino experiments), QCD axion, and flavored-axion.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.01.002

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.01.002;
arXiv
arXiv:1802.05044v3;
PII
S0550321319300045;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
939
Journal Page Range
p. 534-565
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Notes
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.