Origin of Quark-Lepton Flavor in SO(10) with Type II Seesaw

TL;DR

This paper proposes a framework within SO(10) SUSY GUTs with type II seesaw to explain quark and lepton flavor patterns, predicting observable neutrino mixing angles.

Contribution

It introduces a rank-one Yukawa matrix ansatz in SO(10) models with type II seesaw, linking quark and lepton flavor structures.

Findings

Explains large lepton mixings and quark hierarchies simultaneously.

Predicts neutrino mixing angle U_{e3} observable in future experiments.

Provides a natural flavor origin within grand unified theories.

Abstract

Diverse mass and mixing patterns between the quarks and leptons makes it challenging to construct a simple grand unified theory of flavor. We show that SO(10) SUSY GUTs with type II seesaw mechanism giving neutrino masses provide a natural framework for addressing this issue. A simple ansatz that the dominant Yukawa matrix (the 10-Higgs coupling to matter) has rank one, appears to simultaneously explain both the large lepton mixings as well as the observed quark flavor hierarchy in these models. A testable prediction of this ansatz is the neutrino mixing, U_{e3}, which should be observable in planned long baseline experiments.