Fermion masses and mixings from heterotic orbifold models

We search for a possibility of getting realistic fermion mass ratios and mixing angles from renormalizable couplings on the Z_6-I heterotic orbifold with one pair of Higgs doublets. In the quark sector, we find cases with reasonable m_c/m_t, m_s/m_b, and V_{cb}, if we ignore the first family. In the lepton sector, we can fit the charged lepton mass ratios, the neutrino mass squared difference ratio, and the lepton mixing angles, considering all three families.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables; talk presented at PASCOS-05, Gyeongju, May 30-Jun 4, 2005; to appear in the proceeding

LHC 750 GeV diphoton excess and muon (g−2)(g-2)

We consider implications of the diphoton excess recently observed at the LHC on the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon $(g-2)_\mu = 2 a_\mu$, hypothesizing that the possible 750 GeV resonance is a (pseudo)scalar particle. The (pseudo)scalar-$\gamma$-$\gamma$ interaction implied by the diphoton events might generically contribute to $a_\mu$ via 2-loop Barr-Zee type diagrams in a broad class of models. If the scalar is an $SU(2)_L$ singlet, the new contribution to $a_\mu$ is much smaller than the current anomaly, $\Delta a_\mu \equiv a_\mu^{\rm exp}-a_\mu^{\rm SM} \approx (30 \pm 10) \times 10^{-10}$, since the scalar can complete the Barr-Zee diagrams only through its mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson. If the (pseudo)scalar belongs to an $SU(2)_L$ doublet in an extended Higgs sector, then by contrast, $\Delta a_\mu$ can be easily accommodated with the aid of an enhanced Yukawa coupling of the (pseudo)scalar to the muon such as in the Type-II or -X two Higgs doublet model.Comment: 16 pages, added discussions about UV completions with vector-like fermions as well as consequences for heavy Higgs searches and B-physics, journal versio