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New A4 lepton flavor model from S4 modular symmetry

Tatsuo Kobayashi, Yusuke Shimizu, Kenta Takagi, Morimitsu Tanimoto, Takuya H. Tatsuishi

2020Journal of High Energy Physics114 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract We study a flavor model with A 4 symmetry which originates from S 4 modular group. In S 4 symmetry, Z 2 subgroup can be anomalous, and then S 4 can be violated to A 4 . Starting with a S 4 symmetric Lagrangian at the tree level, the Lagrangian at the quantum level has only A 4 symmetry when Z 2 in S 4 is anomalous. We obtain modular forms of two singlets and a triplet representations of A 4 by decomposing S 4 modular forms into A 4 representations. We propose a new A 4 flavor model of leptons by using those A 4 modular forms. We succeed in constructing a viable neutrino mass matrix through the Weinberg operator for both normal hierarchy (NH) and inverted hierarchy (IH) of neutrino masses. Our predictions of the CP violating Dirac phase δ CP and the mixing sin 2 θ 23 depend on the sum of neutrino masses for NH.

Topics & Concepts

NeutrinoParticle physicsPhysicsLeptonSymmetry (geometry)Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrixMass matrixModular groupModular designTree (set theory)Quantum numberPure mathematicsSterile neutrinoNeutrino oscillationMathematicsCombinatoricsQuantum mechanicsComputer scienceGeometryElectronOperating systemNeutrino Physics ResearchParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena