flavor symmetry and
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 53 (11) , 6282-6291
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.53.6282
Abstract
We show how to incorporate the lepton sector in a supersymmetric theory of flavor based on the discrete flavor group . Assuming that all possible nonrenormalizable operators are generated at the Planck scale, we show that the transformation properties of the leptons and of the flavor-symmetry-breaking fields are uniquely determined. We then demonstrate that the model has a viable phenomenology and makes one very striking prediction: the nucleon decays predominantly to where is a first generation lepton. We show that the modes , , and occur at comparable rates, and could well be discovered simultaneously at the SuperKamiokande experiment.
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