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Author Emmanuel-Costa, D.; Simoes, C.; Tortola, M.
Title The minimal adjoint-SU (5) x Z(4) GUT model Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 10 Issue 10 Pages 054 - 30pp
Keywords Neutrino Physics; GUT; Discrete and Finite Symmetries
Abstract An extension of the adjoint SU (5) model with a flavour symmetry based on the Z(4) group is investigated. The Z(4) symmetry is introduced with the aim of leading the up-and down-quark mass matrices to the Nearest-Neighbour-Interaction form. As a consequence of the discrete symmetry embedded in the SU (5) gauge group, the charged lepton mass matrix also gets the same form. Within this model, light neutrinos get their masses through type-I, type-III and one-loop radiative seesaw mechanisms, implemented, respectively, via a singlet, a triplet and an octet from the adjoint fermionic 24 fields. It is demonstrated that the neutrino phenomenology forces the introduction of at least three 24 fermionic multiplets. The symmetry SU (5) x Z(4) allows only two viable zero textures for the effective neutrino mass matrix. It is showed that one texture is only compatible with normal hierarchy and the other with inverted hierarchy in the light neutrino mass spectrum. Finally, it is also demonstrated that Z(4) freezes out the possibility of proton decay through exchange of coloured Higgs triplets at tree-level.
Address [Emmanuel-Costa, D.; Simoes, C.] Univ Lisbon, Inst Super Tecn, Dept Fis, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal, Email: david.costa@ist.utl.pt;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000325495200002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1604
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Author Escribano, P.; Hirsch, M.; Nava, J.; Vicente, A.
Title Observable flavor violation from spontaneous lepton number breaking Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 01 Issue 1 Pages 098 - 31pp
Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics; Global Symmetries
Abstract We propose a simple model of spontaneous lepton number violation with potentially large flavor violating decays, including the possibility that majoron emitting decays, such as μ-> e J, saturate the experimental bounds. In this model the majoron is a singlet-doublet admixture. It generates a type-I seesaw for neutrino masses and contains also a vector-like lepton. As a by-product, the model can explain the anomalous (g – 2)(mu), in parts of its parameter space, where one expects that the branching ratio of the Higgs to muons is changed with respect to Standard Model expectations. However, the explanation of the muon g – 2 anomaly would lead to tension with recent astrophysical bounds on the majoron coupling to muons.
Address [Escribano, Pablo; Hirsch, Martin; Nava, Jacopo; Vicente, Avelino] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrcit Jose Beltrcin 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: pablo.escribano@ifis.uv.es;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000744514600003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5084
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Author Flores-Tlalpa, A.; Lopez Castro, G.; Roig, P.
Title Five-body leptonic decays of muon and tau lepton Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 04 Issue 4 Pages 185 - 21pp
Keywords CP violation; Discrete Symmetries; Effective field theories; Precision QED
Abstract We study the five-body decays u(-) -> e(-)e(+)e(-)nu u (nu) over bar (e) and tau(-) -> l(-)l'+l'-nu(tau)(nu) over bar (l) for l, l' = e, u within the Standard Model (SM) and in a general effective field theory description of the weak interactions at low energies. We compute the branching ratios and compare our results with two previous – mutually discrepan – SM calculations. By assuming a general structure for the weak currents we derive the expressions for the energy and angular distributions of the three charged leptons when the decaying lepton is polarized, which will be useful in precise tests of the weak charged current at Belle II. In these decays, leptonic T-odd correlations in triple products of spin and momenta – which may signal time reversal violation in the leptonic sector – are suppressed by the tiny neutrino masses. Therefore, a measurement of such T-violating observables would be associated to neutrinoless lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays, where this effect is not extremely suppressed. We also study the backgrounds that the SM five-lepton lepton decays constitute to searches of LFV L- -> ? l(-)l'+l'(-) decays. Searches at high values of the invariant mass of the l'(+)l'(-) pair look the most convenient way to overcome the background.
Address [Flores-Tlalpa, A.] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, Apartado Postal 20-364, Mexico City 01000, DF, Mexico, Email: alain@fisica.unam.mx;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000411265800003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3501
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Author Fonseca, R.M.; Grimus, W.
Title Classification of lepton mixing matrices from finite residual symmetries Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 09 Issue 9 Pages 033 - 54pp
Keywords Global Symmetries; Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics
Abstract Assuming that neutrinos are Majorana particles, we perform a complete classification of all possible mixing matrices which are fully determined by residual symmetries in the charged-lepton and neutrino mass matrices. The classification is based on the assumption that the residual symmetries originate from a finite flavour symmetry group. The mathematical tools which allow us to accomplish this classification are theorems on sums of roots of unity. We find 17 sporadic cases plus one infinite series of mixing matrices associated with three-flavour mixing, all of which have already been discussed in the literature. Only the infinite series contains mixing matrices which are compatible with the data at the 3 sigma level.
Address [Fonseca, Renato M.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: renato.fonseca@ific.uv.es;
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000347898400002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2084
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Author Fu, B.W.; King, S.F.; Marsili, L.; Pascoli, S.; Turner, J.; Zhou, Y.L.
Title Non-Abelian domain walls and gravitational waves Type Journal Article
Year 2025 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 04 Issue 4 Pages 142 - 29pp
Keywords Discrete Symmetries; Early Universe Particle Physics; Neutrino Mixing
Abstract We investigate the properties of domain walls arising from non-Abelian discrete symmetries, which we refer to as non-Abelian domain walls. We focus on S4, one of the most commonly used groups in lepton flavour mixing models. The spontaneous breaking of S4 leads to distinct vacua preserving a residual Z2 or Z3 symmetry. Five types of domain walls are found, labelled as SI, SII, TI, TII, and TIII, respectively, the former two separating Z2 vacua and the latter three separating Z3 vacua. We highlight that SI, TI and TIII may be unstable for some regions of the parameter space and decay to stable domain walls. Stable domain walls can collapse and release gravitational radiation for a suitable size of explicit symmetry breaking. A symmetry-breaking scale of order 100 TeV may explain the recent discovery of nanohertz gravitational waves by PTA experiments. For the first time, we investigate the properties of these domain walls, which we obtain numerically with semi-analytical formulas applied to compute the tension and thickness across a wide range of parameter space. We estimate the resulting gravitational wave spectrum and find that, thanks to their rich vacuum structure, non-Abelian domain walls manifest in a very interesting and complex phenomenology.
Address [Fu, Bowen] Northeastern Univ, Coll Sci, Key Lab Cosmol & Astrophys Liaoning, Shenyang 110819, Peoples R China, Email: fubowen@mail.neu.edu.cn;
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001472121900001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 6623
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Author Fuentes-Martin, J.; Portoles, J.; Ruiz-Femenia, P.
Title Instanton-mediated baryon number violation in non-universal gauge extended models Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 01 Issue 1 Pages 134 - 34pp
Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Effective field theories; Global Symmetries
Abstract Instanton solutions of non-abelian Yang-Mills theories generate an effective action that may induce lepton and baryon number violations, namely Delta B = Delta L = nf, being nf the number of families coupled to the gauge group. In this article we study instanton mediated processes in a SU( 2)(l)circle times SU(2)(h)circle times U(1) extension of the Standard Model that breaks universality by singularizing the third family. In the construction of the instanton Green functions we account systematically for the inter-family mixing. This allows us to use the experimental bounds on proton decay in order to constrain the gauge coupling of SU(2)(h). Tau lepton non-leptonic and radiative decays with Delta B = Delta L = 1 are also analysed.
Address [Fuentes-Martin, J.; Portoles, J.; Ruiz-Femenia, P.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: Javier.Fuentes@ific.uv.es;
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000363463300002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2429
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Author Giarnetti, A.; Marciano, S.; Meloni, D.; Rettaroli, M.
Title A roadmap for neutrino charge assignments in U(2)F flavor models: implications for LFV processes and leptonic anomalous magnetic moments Type Journal Article
Year 2026 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 02 Issue 2 Pages 209 - 38pp
Keywords Flavour Symmetries; Neutrino Mixing; Theories of Flavour; Lepton Flavour Violation (charged)
Abstract We build upon a simple U(2)F model of flavor, in which all fermion masses and mixing hierarchies arise from powers of two small parameters controlling U(2)F breaking. In the original formulation, an isomorphism to the discrete D6 & times; U(1)F symmetry was invoked to generate a Majorana neutrino mass term. Here, we retain the successful features of that model for the charged leptons and quarks, while exploring alternative neutrino charge assignments within the U(2)F framework. This approach allows us to generate Majorana neutrino masses via the see-saw mechanism without introducing any additional symmetries nor invoking any isomorphism. We further examine the implications of our models for Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) decays, analyzing the processes μ-> e gamma, tau -> μgamma and tau -> e gamma and their connection with the leptonic anomalous magnetic moments. We show that within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) approach the current limits on the branching ratios of μ-> e gamma LFV decays obtained in our U(2)F models are not compatible with the central value of the recent measurement of the (g – 2)mu, thereby suggesting that either (g – 2)mu must be very close to the Standard Model predictions, as the latest experimental and theoretical results seem to suggest, or the invoked flavor symmetry is not appropriate to describe an anomalous muon magnetic moment.
Address [Giarnetti, Alessio; Marciano, Simone; Meloni, Davide; Rettaroli, Mirko] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Matemat & Fis, Via Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy, Email: alessio.giarnetti@uniroma3.it;
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:001697701400003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 7104
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Author Grinstein, B.; Lu, X.C.; Miro, C.; Quilez, P.
Title Accidental symmetries, Hilbert series, and friends Type Journal Article
Year 2025 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 03 Issue 3 Pages 172 - 86pp
Keywords Baryon/Lepton Number Violation; Effective Field Theories; Flavour Symmetries; Global Symmetries
Abstract Accidental symmetries in effective field theories can be established by computing and comparing Hilbert series. This invites us to study them with the tools of invariant theory. Applying this technology, we spotlight three classes of accidental symmetries that hold to all orders for non-derivative interactions. They are broken by derivative interactions and become ordinary finite-order accidental symmetries. To systematically understand the origin and the patterns of accidental symmetries, we introduce a novel mathematical construct – a (non-transitive) binary relation between subgroups that we call friendship. Equipped with this, we derive new criteria for all-order accidental symmetries in terms of friends, and criteria for finite-order accidental symmetries in terms of friends ma non troppo. They allow us to verify and identify accidental symmetries more efficiently without computing the Hilbert series. We demonstrate the success of our new criteria by applying them to a variety of sample accidental symmetries, including the custodial symmetry in the Higgs sector of the Standard Model effective field theory.
Address [Grinstein, Benjamin; Lu, Xiaochuan; Quilez, Pablo] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA, Email: bgrinstein@ucsd.edu;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001449541700001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 6603
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Author Grinstein, B.; Lu, X.C.; Miro, C.; Quílez, P.
Title Most general EFTs from spurion analysis Hilbert series and minimal lepton flavor violation Type Journal Article
Year 2025 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 07 Issue 7 Pages 259 - 41pp
Keywords Effective Field Theories; Flavour Symmetries; SMEFT
Abstract We derive a saturation theorem for general Effective Field Theories (EFTs) constructed using spurion analysis. Let S be a set of spurion fields introduced to organize the breaking of a global symmetry Gf, and HS be the subgroup of Gf that remains unbroken under a generic vacuum expectation value < S >; we show that the EFT Lagrangian constructed from the spurion analysis saturates the EFT Lagrangian without the spurions but restricted to HS invariance, provided that arbitrary powers of the spurion fields are allowed. As examples, we study several implementations of the Minimal Lepton Flavor Violation (MLFV) principle, corresponding to various origins of the neutrino masses. In each scenario, we compute the Hilbert series to obtain the numbers of independent lepton flavor covariants that appear in the corresponding EFT at mass dimension 6. These numbers agree with the number of HS invariants in the EFT without the spurions, demonstrating the saturation theorem. Motivated by phenomenological connections, we provide linearly independent spurion polynomials for selected lepton flavor covariants. A supplementary material file supplies , a Mathematica notebook that provides functions for computing general Hilbert series of invariants and covariants of compact classical groups. It presents examples demonstrating the use of the code, including the Hilbert series for our MLFV scenarios.
Address [Grinstein, Benjamin; Lu, Xiaochuan; Quilez, Pablo] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA, Email: bgrinstein@ucsd.edu;
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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Notes WOS:001538712800004 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 6777
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Author Han, C.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Melis, A.; Vives, O.; Yang, J.M.
Title Anomaly-free ALP from non-Abelian flavor symmetry Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 08 Issue 8 Pages 306 - 21pp
Keywords Axions and ALPs; Flavour Symmetries; Lepton Flavour Violation (charged)
Abstract Motivated by the XENON1T excess in electron-recoil measurements, we investigate the prospects of probing axion-like particles (ALP) in lepton flavor violation experiments. In particular, we identify such ALP as a pseudo-Goldstone from the spontaneous breaking of the flavor symmetries that explain the mixing structure of the Standard Model leptons. We present the case of the flavor symmetries being a non-Abelian U(2) and the ALP originating from its U(1) subgroup, which is anomaly-free with the Standard Model group. We build two explicit realistic examples that reproduce leptonic masses and mixings and show that the ALP which is consistent with XENON1T anomaly could be probed by the proposed LFV experiments.
Address [Han, C.] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Phys, Guangzhou 510275, Peoples R China, Email: hanchch@mail.sysu.edu.cn;
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000848742400001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5348
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