Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-10-07
Phys.Rev.Lett.102:101801,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Comparison with the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism omitted. Some clarifications added. This is the version accepted by PRL with a
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.101801
The generation of exponential flavor hierarchies from extra-dimensional wavefunction overlaps is re-examined. We find, surprisingly, that coexistence of anarchic fermion mass matrices with such hierarchies is intrinsic and natural to this setting. The salient features of charged fermion and neutrino masses and mixings can thereby be captured within a single framework. Both Dirac and Majorana neutrinos can be realized. The minimal phenomenological consequences are discussed, including the need for a fundamental scale far above the weak scale to adequately suppress flavor-changing neutral currents. Two broad scenarios for stabilizing this electroweak hierarchy are studied, warped compactification and supersymmetry. In warped compactifications and "Flavorful Supersymmetry," where non-trivial flavor structure appears in the new TeV physics, Dirac neutrinos are strongly favored over Majorana by lepton flavor violation tests. We argue that this is part of a more general result for flavor-sensitive TeV-scale physics. Our scenario strongly suggests that the supersymmetric flavor problem is not solved locally in the extra dimension, but rather at or below the compactification scale. In the supersymmetric Dirac case, we discuss how the appearance of light right-handed sneutrinos considerably alters the physics of dark matter.
Agashe Kaustubh
Okui Takemichi
Sundrum Raman
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