New Approach to Texture-zeros with S₃ symmetry - Flavor Symmetry and Vacuum Aligned Mass Textures -

2007/03/23 by Satoru Kaneko, Kaneko, Satoru, Hideyuki Sawanaka +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0703250

9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Neutrino Masses and Mixings -- Toward Unified Understanding of Quark and Lepton Mass Matrices --, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, December 17-19 2006

arxiv created 2007/03/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

A texture-zeros is an approach to reduce the number of free parameters in Yukawa couplings and it is one of the most attractive ones. In our paper, we discuss the origin of zero-structure in texture-zeros by S₃ flavor symmetry approach. Some of electroweak doublet Higgs fields have vanishing vacuum expectation value(VEV) which leads to vanishing elements in quark and lepton mass matrices. Then, the structure of supersymmetric scalar potential is analyzed and Higgs fields have non-trivial S₃ charges. As a prediction of our paper, a lower bound of a MNS matrix element, U_e3 ≥ 0.04, is obtained. The suppression of flavor-changing neutral currents(FCNC) mediated by the Higgs fields is discussed and lower bounds of the Higgs masses are derived.

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