Modular flavour symmetries and modulus stabilisation

Abstract We study the problem of modulus stabilisation in the framework of the modular symmetry approach to the flavour problem. By analysing simple UV-motivated CP-invariant potentials for the modulus τ we find that a class of these potentials has (non-fine-tuned) CP-breaking minima in the vicinity...

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Main Authors: P. P. Novichkov, J. T. Penedo, S. T. Petcov
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: SpringerOpen 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Acceso en liña:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)149
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Summary:Abstract We study the problem of modulus stabilisation in the framework of the modular symmetry approach to the flavour problem. By analysing simple UV-motivated CP-invariant potentials for the modulus τ we find that a class of these potentials has (non-fine-tuned) CP-breaking minima in the vicinity of the point of ℤ 3 ST $$ {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_3^{ST} $$ residual symmetry, τ ≃ e 2πi/3. Stabilising the modulus at these novel minima breaks spontaneously the CP symmetry and can naturally explain the mass hierarchies of charged leptons and possibly of quarks.
ISSN:1029-8479