Discrete symmetries and models of flavor mixing
Mar, 201114 pages
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- J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 335 (2011) 012006
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- 1103.3461 [hep-ph]
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Evidences of a discrete symmetry behind the pattern of lepton mixing are analyzed. The program of "symmetry building" is outlined. Generic features and problems of realization of this program in consistent gauge models are formulated. The key issues include the flavor symmetry breaking, connection of mixing and masses, {\it ad hoc} prescription of flavor charges, "missing" representations, existence of new particles, possible accidental character of the TBM mixing. Various ways are considered to extend the leptonic symmetries to the quark sector and to reconcile them with Grand Unification. In this connection the quark-lepton complementarity could be a viable alternative to TBM. Observational consequences of the symmetries and future experimental tests of their existence are discussed.Note:
- 14 pages, 5 figures. Talk given at the Symposium "DISCRETE 2010", 6 - 11 December 2010, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- symmetry: discrete
- flavor: mixing
- symmetry breaking: flavor
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