Spontaneous CP violation in E6 SUSY GUT with SU(2) flavor and anomalous U(1) symmetries

TL;DR

This paper develops a supersymmetric GUT model with spontaneous CP violation using flavor and anomalous U(1) symmetries, successfully addressing fermion masses, mixing, and CP violation while avoiding common supersymmetric problems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel combination of symmetries and discrete constraints to achieve realistic fermion properties and CP violation in an E6 SUSY GUT framework.

Findings

Reproduces quark and lepton mass spectra and mixing angles.

Predicts Vub ~ O(lambda^4) and |Vcb Yb| = |Yc| at GUT scale.

Satisfies constraints from quark electric dipole moments.

Abstract

We construct a model of spontaneous CP violation in E6 supersymmetric grand unified theory. In the model, we employ an SU(2)F flavor symmetry and an anomalous U(1)A symmetry. The SU(2)F flavor symmetry is introduced to provide the origin of hierarchical structures of Yukawa coupling and to ensure the universality of sfermion soft masses. The anomalous U(1)A symmetry is introduced to realize the doublet-triplet mass splitting, to provide the origin of hierarchical structures of Yukawa couplings, and to solve the mu problem. In the model, CP is spontaneously broken by the SU(2)F breaking in order to provide a Kobayashi-Maskawa phase and to evade the supersymmetric CP problem. However, a naive construction of the model generally leads to unwanted outcome, Arg[mu b*]=O(1), when CP violating effects in the flavor sector are taken into account. We cure this difficulty by imposing a discrete symmetry and find that this prescription can play additional roles. It ensures that realistic up-quark mass and Cabibbo angle are simultaneously realized without cancellation between O(1) coefficients. Also, severe constraints from the chromo-electric dipole moment of the quark can be satisfied without destabilizing the weak scale. The discrete symmetry reduces the number of free parameters, but the model is capable of reproducing quark and lepton mass spectra, mixing angles, and a Jarlskog invariant. We obtain characteristic predictions Vub sim O(lambda^4) (lambda=0.22) and |Vcb Yb| = |Yc| at the grand unified theory scale.