Flavor-deconstructed neutrinos

1 Jul 2025, 16:30
20m
Aula "MUSUMECI" (Roma Tre)

Aula "MUSUMECI"

Roma Tre

Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi, 00153 Roma RM

Speaker

Avelino Vicente (IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))

Description

A tentative approach to explain the flavor puzzle consists of embedding the Standard Model in a larger gauge symmetry that contains a separate gauge group for each fermion family. In such gauge non-universal (or flavor-deconstructed) theories, neutrinos pose some challenges. I will discuss existing ideas in the literature and present a simple model in which flavor deconstruction naturally leads to sequential dominance for both neutrinos and charged leptons, thus providing a viable explanation for the flavor structure of the lepton sector.

Primary author

Avelino Vicente (IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))

Presentation materials