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SUMMARY:Flavor Symmetry Breaking and Vacuum Alignment on Orbifolds
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DESCRIPTION:Flavor symmetry has been widely studied for figuring out the m
 asses and mixing angles of standard-model fermions. In this paper we prese
 nt a framework for handling flavor symmetry breaking where the symmetry br
 eaking is triggered by boundary conditions of scalar fields in extra-dimen
 sional space. The alignment of scalar expectation values is achieved witho
 ut referring to any details of scalar potential and its minimization proce
 dure. As applications to non-abelian discrete flavor symmetries\, illustra
 tive lepton mass models are constructed where the S3 and A4 flavor symmetr
 ies are broken down to the directions leading to the tri-bimaximal form of
  lepton mixing and realistic mass patterns.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/e
 vent/1712/
LOCATION:Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG) Sala Seminarios
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/1712/
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