Flavor Physics and Unification

by K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State)

Thursday 2 Jun 2016, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

3344 (Physikdepartment)

A novel attempt to understand the flavor puzzle (hierarchical fermion masses, disparate flavor mixings in the quark and lepton sectors, etc) in the context of unified theories will be presented. A key new feature is the absence of the fundamental Higgs in SO(10), which is replaced by a vector-like fermion family. I shall also discuss flavor unification near the TeV scale based on a maximal subgroup of the flavor symmetry group, along with its implications for LHC searches.