Knotted strings and leptonic flavor structure

DOI10.1142/S0217732312502240MaRDI QIDQ4912646zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. E. Leser, Heinrich Päs, Thomas W. Kephart

Publication date 4 April 2013

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.6201

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We propose a third idea for the explanation of the leptonic flavor structure in addition to the prominent approaches based on flavor symmetry and anarchy. Typical flavor patterns can be modeled by using mass spectra obtained from the discrete lengths spectrum of tight knots and links. We assume that a string theory model exists in which this idea can be incorporated via the Majorana mass structure of a type I seesaw model. It is shown by a scan over the parameter space that such a model is able to provide an excellent fit to current neutrino data and that it predicts a normal neutrino mass hierarchy as well as a small mixing angle heta_{13}. Startlingly, such scenarios could be related to the dimensionality of space time via an anthropic argument.

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• Knot tightening by constrained gradient descent
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