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    Universal predictions of Siegel modular invariant theories near the fixed points

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    We analyze a general class of locally supersymmetric, CP and modular invariant models of lepton masses depending on two complex moduli taking values in the vicinity of a fixed point, where the theory enjoys a residual symmetry under a finite group. Like in models that depend on a single modulus, we find that all physical quantities exhibit a universal scaling with the distance from the fixed point. There is no dependence on the level of the construction, the weights of matter multiplets and their representations, with the only restriction that electroweak lepton doublets transform as irreducible triplets of the finite modular group. Also the form of the kinetic terms, which here are assumed to be neither minimal nor flavor blind, is irrelevant to the outcome. The result is remarkably simple and the whole class of examined theories gives rise to five independent patterns of neutrino mass matrices. Only in one of them, the predicted scaling agrees with the observed neutrino mass ratios and lepton mixing angles, exactly as in single modulus theories living close to Ï„=i\tau=i.Comment: 51 page

    A minimal modular invariant neutrino model

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    We present a neutrino mass model based on modular symmetry with the fewest input parameters to date, which successfully accounts for the 12 lepton masses and mixing parameters through 6 real free parameters including the modulus. The neutrino masses are predicted to be normal ordering, the atmospheric angle θ23\theta_{23} is quite close to maximal value and the Dirac CP phase δCP\delta_{CP} is about 1.34π1.34\pi. We also study the soft supersymmetry breaking terms due to the modulus FF-term in this minimal model, which are constrained to be the non-holomorphic modular forms. The radiative lepton flavor violation process μ→eγ\mu\to e\gamma is discussed.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figure

    Modular symmetry origin of texture zeros and quark lepton unification

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    The even weight modular forms of level NN can be arranged into the common irreducible representations of the inhomogeneous finite modular group ΓN\Gamma_N and the homogeneous finite modular group ΓN′\Gamma'_N which is the double covering of ΓN\Gamma_N, and the odd weight modular forms of level NN transform in the new representations of ΓN′\Gamma'_N. We find that the above structure of modular forms can naturally generate texture zeros of the fermion mass matrices if we properly assign the representations and weights of the matter fields under the modular group. We perform a comprehensive analysis for the Γ3′≅T′\Gamma'_3\cong T' modular symmetry. The three generations of left-handed quarks are assumed to transform as a doublet and a singlet of T′T', we find six possible texture zeros structures of quark mass matrix up to row and column permutations. We present five benchmark quark models which can produce very good fit to the experimental data. These quark models are further extended to include lepton sector, the resulting models can give a unified description of both quark and lepton masses and flavor mixing simultaneously although they contain less number of free parameters than the observables.Comment: 36 pages, 2 figur
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