Yukawa matrices from a spontaneously broken abelian symmetry

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Abstract

We classify all the phenomenologically viable fermion mass matrices coming from a spontaneously broken abelian symmetry U(1)X, with one and two additional chiral fields of opposite charges X = ±1. We find that the non-trivial Kähler metric can fill zeroes of the fermion mass matrices up to phenomenologically interesting values. A general anomaly analysis shows that for one additional chiral field the only way to achieve anomaly cancellation is by use of the Green-Schwarz mechanism. For two additional fields with X = ±1 and negative charge differences in the lepton sector the anomalies can however be directly put to zero. This case gives a unique prediction for the ratio of the two Higgs scalars of MSSM, tgβ∼ mt mb(sinθc)2, where θc is the Cabibbo angle.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-55
Number of pages11
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume356
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Aug 1995
Externally publishedYes

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