scholarly journals Analysis of quark mixing using binary tetrahedral flavor symmetry

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Eby ◽  
Paul H. Frampton ◽  
Shinya Matsuzaki
Keyword(s):  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Quark Mixing

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE QUARK MIXING ANGLES

1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (18) ◽  
pp. 3293-3320 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. LÓPEZ CASTRO
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Mixing Angles ◽  
Decay Properties ◽  
Quark Mixing ◽  
Exclusive Decay

We review the current status of the determination of the quark mixing angles |Vqq′|, where q=u, c; q′=d, s, b. We consider essentially exclusive decay processes, taking into account the main sources of uncertainties, the available calculations of flavor symmetry breaking for hadronic matrix elements and the possibilities of improvement offered by new experimental results. In some cases we provide full expressions for |Vqq′| in terms of measurable decay properties, which can be useful for new experimental data. Finally, we discuss briefly the effects on the unitarity tests of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix when we consider recent corrections to the determination of |Vud|.

scholarly journals 5d and 4d SCFTs: canonical singularities, trinions and S-dualities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Closset ◽  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki ◽  
Yi-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Crepant Resolution ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Hypersurface Singularities ◽  
Canonical Singularities ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
M Theory

Abstract Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study canonical hypersurface singularities whose resolutions contain residual terminal singularities and/or 3-cycles. We focus on a certain class of ‘trinion’ singularities which exhibit these properties. In Type IIB, they give rise to 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs that we call $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions, which are marginal gaugings of three SCFTs with G flavor symmetry. In order to understand the 5d physics of these trinion singularities in M-theory, we reduce these 4d and 5d SCFTs to 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 theories, thus determining the electric and magnetic quivers (or, more generally, quiverines). In M-theory, residual terminal singularities give rise to free sectors of massless hypermultiplets, which often are discretely gauged. These free sectors appear as ‘ugly’ components of the magnetic quiver of the 5d SCFT. The 3-cycles in the crepant resolution also give rise to free hypermultiplets, but their physics is more subtle, and their presence renders the magnetic quiver ‘bad’. We propose a way to redeem the badness of these quivers using a class $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S realization. We also discover new S-dualities between different $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions. For instance, a certain E8 gauging of the E8 Minahan-Nemeschansky theory is S-dual to an E8-shaped Lagrangian quiver SCFT.

scholarly journals Exothermic dark mesons in light of electron recoil excess at XENON1T

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-Min Choi ◽  
Hyun Min Lee ◽  
Bin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Density Current ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Color Group ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Relic Density

Abstract We consider a novel mechanism to realize exothermic dark matter with dark mesons in the limit of approximate flavor symmetry in a dark QCD. We introduce a local dark U(1)′ symmetry to communicate between dark mesons and the Standard Model via Z′ portal by partially gauging the dark flavor symmetry with flavor-dependent charges for cancelling chiral anomalies in the dark sector. After the dark local U(1)′ is broken spontaneously by the VEV of a dark Higgs, there appear small mass splittings between dark quarks, consequently, leading to small split masses for dark mesons, required to explain the electron recoil excess in XENON1T by the inelastic scattering between dark mesons and electron. We propose a concrete benchmark model for split dark mesons based on SU(3)L× SU(3)R/SU(3)V flavor symmetry and SU(Nc) color group and show that there exists a parameter space making a better fit to the XENON1T data with two correlated peaks from exothermic processes and satisfying the correct relic density, current experimental and theoretical constraints.

scholarly journals The axion-baryon coupling in SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Vonk ◽  
Feng-Kun Guo ◽  
Ulf-G. Meißner
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Chiral Perturbation Theory ◽  
Heavy Baryon ◽  
Power Counting ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Stellar Objects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter

Abstract In the past, the axion-nucleon coupling has been calculated in the framework of SU(2) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory up to third order in the chiral power counting. Here, we extend these earlier studies to the case of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with SU(3) flavor symmetry and derive the axion coupling to the full SU(3) baryon octet, showing that the axion also significantly couples to hyperons. As studies on dense nuclear matter suggest the possible existence of hyperons in stellar objects such as neutron stars, our results should have phenomenological implications related to the so-called axion window.

scholarly journals SUSY breaking constraints on modular flavor S3 invariant SU(5) GUT model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaokang Du ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Susy Breaking ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Modular Invariance ◽  
Lepton Flavor ◽  
Flavor Structure ◽  
Flavor Mixing ◽  
Breaking Mechanism ◽  
Gut Scale ◽  
Additional Constraints ◽  
Rule Out

Abstract Modular flavor symmetry can be used to explain the quark and lepton flavor structures. The SUSY partners of quarks and leptons, which share the same superpotential with the quarks and leptons, will also be constrained by the modular flavor structure and show a different flavor(mixing) pattern at the GUT scale. So, in realistic modular flavor models with SUSY completion, constraints from the collider and DM constraints can also be used to constrain the possible values of the modulus parameter. In the first part of this work, we discuss the possibility that the S3 modular symmetry can be preserved by the fixed points of T2/ZN orbifold, especially from T2/Z2. To illustrate the additional constraints from collider etc on modular flavor symmetry models, we take the simplest UV SUSY-completion S3 modular invariance SU(5) GUT model as an example with generalized gravity mediation SUSY breaking mechanism. We find that such constraints can indeed be useful to rule out a large portion of the modulus parameters. Our numerical results show that the UV-completed model can account for both the SM (plus neutrino) flavor structure and the collider, DM constraints. Such discussions can also be applied straightforwardly to other modular flavor symmetry models, such as A4 or S4 models.

scholarly journals (5d RG-flow) trees in the tropical rain forest

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke van Beest ◽  
Antoine Bourget ◽  
Julius Eckhard ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Hasse Diagrams ◽  
Flavor Symmetries ◽  
Rank 2 ◽  
Mass Deformation

Abstract 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) can be obtained from 6d SCFTs by circle compactification and mass deformation. Successive decoupling of hypermultiplet matter and RG-flow generates a decoupling tree of descendant 5d SCFTs. In this paper we determine the magnetic quivers and Hasse diagrams, that encode the Higgs branches of 5d SCFTs, for entire decoupling trees. Central to this undertaking is the approach in [1], which, starting from the generalized toric polygons (GTPs) dual to 5-brane webs/tropical curves, provides a systematic and succinct derivation of magnetic quivers and their Hasse diagrams. The decoupling in the GTP description is straightforward, and generalizes the standard flop transitions of curves in toric polygons. We apply this approach to a large class of 5d KK-theories, and compute the Higgs branches for their descendants. In particular we determine the decoupling tree for all rank 2 5d SCFTs. For each tree, we also identify the flavor symmetry algebras from the magnetic quivers, including non-simply-laced flavor symmetries.

scholarly journals Flavor symmetry of 5d SCFTs. Part II. Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshya Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Gauge Algebra ◽  
Mass Deformation ◽  
General Method

Abstract In Part I of this series of papers, we described a general method for determining the flavor symmetry of any 5d SCFT which can be constructed by integrating out BPS particles from some 6d SCFT compactified on a circle. In this part, we apply the method to explicitly determine the flavor symmetry of those 5d SCFTs which reduce, upon a mass deformation, to some 5d$$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 gauge theory carrying a simple gauge algebra. In these cases, the flavor symmetry of the 5d gauge theory is often enhanced at the conformal point. We use our method to determine this enhancement.

scholarly journals Variants of fattening and flavor symmetry restoration

1999 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Orginos ◽  
Doug Toussaint ◽  
R. L. Sugar
Keyword(s):  
Flavor Symmetry
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