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A4 family symmetry and quark-lepton unification

Stephen F. King, Michal Malinsky

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0610250

Abstract

We present a model of quark and lepton masses and mixings based on A4 family symmetry, a discrete subgroup of an SO(3) flavour symmetry, together with Pati-Salam unification. It accommodates tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing via constrained sequential dominance with a particularly simple vacuum alignment mechanism emerging through the effective D-term contributions to the scalar potential.

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