Cosmological constraints on light flavons

Abstract The Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism is a well-motivated framework for generating the fermion mass hierarchy. This mechanism introduces flavons, complex scalars which are singlet under the Standard Model gauge symmetry and charged under a new global family symmetry. We make use of a leptophilic f...

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Main Authors: Matti Heikinheimo, Katri Huitu, Venus Keus, Niko Koivunen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)065