Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9854785 | Nuclear Physics B | 2005 | 39 Pages |
Abstract
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 ansätze for mass matrices.
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Authors
Herbi K. Dreiner, Hitoshi Murayama, Marc Thormeier,