Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-11-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
30 pages, 3 figures, minor changes to match the published version
Scientific paper
We present a supersymmetric see-saw $S_4$ model giving rise to the most general neutrino mass matrix compatible with Tri-Bimaximal mixing. We adopt the $S_4\times Z_5$ flavour symmetry, broken by suitable vacuum expectation values of a small number of flavon fields. We show that the vacuum alignment is a natural solution of the most general superpotential allowed by the flavour symmetry, without introducing any soft breaking terms. In the charged lepton sector, mass hierarchies are controlled by the spontaneous breaking of the flavour symmetry caused by the vevs of one doublet and one triplet flavon fields instead of using the Froggatt-Nielsen U(1) mechanism. The next to leading order corrections to both charged lepton mass matrix and flavon vevs generate corrections to the mixing angles as large as ${\cal O}(\lambda_C^2)$. Applied to the quark sector, the symmetry group $S_4\times Z_5$ can give a leading order $V_{CKM}$ proportional to the identity as well as a matrix with ${\cal O}(1)$ coefficients in the Cabibbo $2\times 2$ submatrix. Higher order corrections produce non vanishing entries in the other $V_{CKM}$ entries which are generically of ${\cal O}(\lambda_C^2)$.
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