Theory of flavors: String compactification

TL;DR

This paper introduces a string compactification model that successfully predicts quark and lepton mixing angles, providing a concrete connection between string theory and observed particle physics data.

Contribution

It presents the first string compactification model that fits observed data on mixing angles and discusses implications for CP phases and proton decay.

Findings

Successfully fits observed quark and lepton mixing angles

Proposes a relation between CP phases in CKM and PMNS matrices

Shows proton lifetime can be sufficiently long in the model

Abstract

We present a calculating method for the quark and lepton mixing angles. After a general discussion in field theoretic models, we present a working model from a string compactification through $Z_{12-I}$ orbifold compactification. It is beyond presenting just three families of the standard model but is the first example from string compactification successfully fitting to the observed data. Assuming that all Yukawa couplings from string compactification are real, we also comment on a relation between the CP phases in the Jarlskog determinants obtained from the CKM and PMNS matrices. The flipped SU(5) model leads to the doublet-triplet splitting and possible proton decay operators. It is shown that the vacuum expectation values can be tuned such that the proton lifetime is long enough.