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Two approaches for flavour models with large Θ13
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Two approaches for flavour models with large Θ13

M. Spinrath
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Flavor Symmetries and Consequences in Accelerators and Cosmology, FLASY 2012, pp.289-296
2012

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
The recent experimental confirmation of a large reactor mixing angle makes a careful revision of flavour models necessary. Many models are actually ruled out by this observation and the popular bimaximal and tri-bimaximal mixing patterns are challenged. We will present here two possible scenarios with a large Θ 13 . First, corrections from the charged lepton sector might modify the (tri-)bimaximal mixing pattern to generate an effectively large Θ 13 which is well motivated in GUT frameworks. Second, (tri-)bimaximal mixing itself might need to be modified, e.g. by a modified vacuum structure of the family symmetry breaking flavon fields. We present examples for both possibilities and show implications for the CP violation in the lepton sector.

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