Fermion Masses and Flavor Mixings in a Model with $S_4$ Flavor Symmetry

TL;DR

This paper proposes a supersymmetric model with $S_4$ flavor symmetry that explains fermion masses and mixings, reproducing observed patterns and analyzing phenomenological implications for neutrino hierarchy and neutrinoless double beta decay.

Contribution

It introduces a novel $S_4$-based flavor symmetry model that simultaneously accounts for quark and lepton mass hierarchies and mixing angles, including next-to-leading order corrections.

Findings

Reproduces tri-bimaximal mixing and charged lepton hierarchies.

Generates realistic quark mass and mixing patterns.

Analyzes neutrino mass hierarchy and neutrinoless double beta decay implications.

Abstract

We present a supersymmetric model of quark and lepton based on $S_4\times Z_3\times Z_4$ flavor symmetry. The $S_4$ symmetry is broken down to Klein four and $Z_3$ subgroups in the neutrino and the charged lepton sectors respectively. Tri-Bimaximal mixing and the charged lepton mass hierarchies are reproduced simultaneously at leading order. Moreover, a realistic pattern of quark masses and mixing angles is generated with the exception of the mixing angle between the first two generations, which requires a small accidental enhancement. It is remarkable that the mass hierarchies are controlled by the spontaneous breaking of flavor symmetry in our model. The next to leading order contributions are studied, all the fermion masses and mixing angles receive corrections of relative order $\lambda^2_c$ with respect to the leading order results. The phenomenological consequences of the model are analyzed, the neutrino mass spectrum can be normal hierarchy or inverted hierarchy, and the combined measurement of the $0\nu2\beta$ decay effective mass $m_{\beta\beta}$ and the lightest neutrino mass can distinguish the normal hierarchy from the inverted hierarchy.