Fermion Mass Hierarchies and Flavor Mixing from $T'$ Symmetry

TL;DR

This paper develops a supersymmetric flavor model using $T'$ symmetry that naturally explains fermion mass hierarchies and predicts nearly tri-bimaximal lepton mixing, matching observed quark and lepton data.

Contribution

It introduces a novel supersymmetric model based on $T'$ symmetry with detailed vacuum alignment and corrections, producing realistic fermion mass hierarchies and mixing patterns.

Findings

Charged lepton mass hierarchy is naturally generated.

Nearly tri-bimaximal lepton mixing is predicted.

Realistic quark mass and CKM matrix hierarchies are achieved.

Abstract

We construct a supersymmetric model based on $T'\otimes Z_3\otimes Z_9$ flavor symmetry. At the leading order, the charged lepton mass matrix is not diagonal, $T'$ is broken completely, and the hierarchy in the charged lepton masses is generated naturally. Nearly tri-bimaximal mixing is predicted, subleading effects induce corrections of order $\lambda^2$, where $\lambda$ is the Cabibbo angle. Both the up quark and down quark mass matrices textures of the well-known U(2) flavor theory are produced at the leading order, realistic hierarchies in quark masses and CKM matrix elements are obtained. The vacuum alignment and subleading corrections are discussed in detail.