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An SUSY GUT of flavour in 6d
We propose a 6d model with a SUSY gauge symmetry. After
compactification, it explains the origin of the Family Symmetry with CSD3
vacuum alignment, as well as breaking with doublet-triplet splitting.
The model naturally accounts for all quark and lepton (including neutrino)
masses and mixings, incorporating the highly predictive Littlest Seesaw
structure. It spontaneously breaks CP symmetry, resulting in successful CP
violation in the quark and lepton sectors, while solving the Strong CP problem.
It also explains the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) through
leptogenesis, with the leptogenesis phase directly linked to the Dirac and
Majorana phases.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures. v3: Version published in JHE
Grand Unified Theory of Flavour and Leptogenesis
We propose a Grand Unified Theory of Flavour, based on together with
a non-Abelian discrete group , under which the unified three quark and
lepton 16-plets are unified into a single triplet . The model involves a
further discrete group which controls
the Higgs and flavon symmetry breaking sectors. The CSD2 flavon vacuum
alignment is discussed, along with the GUT breaking potential and the
doublet-triplet splitting, and proton decay is shown to be under control. The
Yukawa matrices are derived in detail, from renormalisable diagrams, and
neutrino masses emerge from the type I seesaw mechanism. A full numerical fit
is performed with 15 input parameters generating 19 presently constrained
observables, taking into account supersymmetry threshold corrections. The model
predicts a normal neutrino mass ordering with a CP oscillation phase of
, an atmospheric angle in the first octant and neutrinoless double
beta decay with meV. We discuss leptogenesis, which
fixes the second right-handed neutrino mass to be
GeV, in the natural range predicted by the model.Comment: 26 pages, 10 figure
Towards a complete SUSY GUT
We propose a renormalisable model based on family symmetry with an
grand unified theory (GUT) which leads to the minimal supersymmetric
standard model (MSSM) with a two right-handed neutrino seesaw mechanism.
Discrete symmetry provides the fermion mass
hierarchy in both the quark and lepton sectors, while symmetry
is broken to , identified as usual R-parity. Proton decay is
highly suppressed by these symmetries. We discuss both the and
symmetry breaking sectors, including doublet-triplet splitting, Higgs mixing
and the origin of the term. The model provides an excellent fit (better
than one sigma) to all quark and lepton (including neutrino) masses and mixing
with spontaneous CP violation. With the vacuum alignments, and
, the model predicts the entire PMNS mixing matrix with no free
parameters, up to a relative phase, selected to be from a choice of
the nine complex roots of unity, providing a direct link between neutrino
oscillations and leptogenesis.Comment: 30 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables; Minor changes, references added,
version accepted in JHE
Leptogenesis in minimal predictive seesaw models
We estimate the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) arising from
leptogenesis within a class of minimal predictive seesaw models involving two
right-handed neutrinos and simple Yukawa structures with one texture zero. The
two right-handed neutrinos are dominantly responsible for the "atmospheric" and
"solar" neutrino masses with Yukawa couplings to proportional to and , respectively, where
is a positive integer. The neutrino Yukawa matrix is therefore characterised by
two proportionality constants with their relative phase providing a
leptogenesis-PMNS link, enabling the lightest right-handed neutrino mass to be
determined from neutrino data and the observed BAU. We discuss an SUSY
GUT example, where vacuum alignment provides the required Yukawa
structures with , while a symmetry fixes the relatives
phase to be a ninth root of unity.Comment: 16 pages, 2 tables. v2: minor changes, references added, version
accepted in JHE
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