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Flavor’s Delight

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Discrete flavor symmetries provide a promising approach to understand the flavor sector of the standard model of particle physics. Top-down (TD) explanations from string theory reveal two different types of such flavor symmetries: traditional and modular flavor symmetries that combine to the eclectic flavor group. There have been many bottom-up (BU) constructions to fit experimental data within this scheme. We compare TD and BU constructions to identify the most promising groups and try to give a unified description. Although there is some progress in joining BU and TD approaches, we point out some gaps that have to be closed with future model building.

Source: Entropy

DOI: 10.3390/e26050355

Authors: Hans Peter Nilles, Saúl Ramos-Sánchez

Institutions: University of Bonn, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Language: English

Topic: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,955

Funder: Fundación Marcos Moshinsky