Erratum to: SO(10) × S 4 grand unified theory of flavour and leptogenesis

Abstract

We propose a Grand Unified Theory of Flavour, based on SO(10) together with a non-Abelian discrete group S 4 , under which the unified three quark and lepton 16plets are unified into a single triplet 3 . The model involves a further discrete group Z R 4 ×Z 3 4 which controls the Higgs and flavon symmetry breaking sectors. The CSD2 flavon vacuum alignment is discussed, along with the GUT breaking potential and the doublet-triplet splitting, and proton decay is shown to be under control. The Yukawa matrices are derived in detail, from renormalisable diagrams, and neutrino masses emerge from the type I seesaw mechanism. A full numerical fit is performed with 15 input parameters generating 19 presently constrained observables, taking into account supersymmetry threshold corrections. The model predicts a normal neutrino mass ordering with a CP oscillation phase of 260 • , an atmospheric angle in the first octant and neutrinoless double beta decay with m ββ = 11 meV. We discuss N 2 leptogenesis, which fixes the second right-handed neutrino mass to be M 2 2 × 10 11 GeV, in the natural range predicted by the model.

SO(10) unification with horizontal symmetry

“…Multiplets of H will only contribute in our analysis by providing multiple copies of the Higgs boson representations, which affect the evolution of the couplings of SM. Notably, several earlier attempts have been made to use horizontal symmetries in explaining the flavor hierarchy in the fermion sector of the SM [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. However, in most of those cases, the horizontal symmetry is imposed on the fermion mass matrix to generate the required texture.…”