An SO(10) Grand Unified Theory of Flavor

Abstract

We present a supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified theory (GUT) of flavor based on an $S_4$ family symmetry. It makes use of our recent proposal to use SO(10) with type II seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses combined with a simple ansatz that the dominant Yukawa matrix (the {\bf 10}-Higgs coupling to matter) has rank one. In this paper, we show how the rank one model can arise within some plausible assumptions as an effective field theory from vectorlike {\bf 16} dimensional matter fields with masses above the GUT scale. In order to obtain the desired fermion flavor texture we use $S_4$ flavon multiplets which acquire vevs in the ground state of the theory. By supplementing the $S_4$ theory with an additional discrete symmetry, we find that the flavon vacuum field alignments take a discrete set of values provided some of the higher dimensional couplings are small. Choosing a particular set of these vacuum alignments appears to lead to an unified understanding of observed quark-lepton flavor: (i) the lepton mixing matrix that is dominantly tri-bi-maximal with small corrections related to quark mixings; (ii) quark lepton mass relations at GUT scale: $m_b\simeq m_{\tau }$ and $m_{\mu }\simeq 3m_s$ and (iii) the solar to atmospheric neutrino mass ratio $m_{\odot }/m_{\mathrm{atm}}\simeq {\theta }_{\mathrm{Cabibbo}}$ in agreement with observations. The model predicts the neutrino mixing parameter, $U_{e3}\simeq {\theta }_{\mathrm{Cabibbo}}/(3\sqrt{2})\sim 0.05$, which should be observable in planned long baseline experiments.

Final version of the paper as it will appear in JHEP.

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