Effective alignments and the landscape of $S_4$ flavour models

Abstract

We explore the concept of effective alignments: contractions of multiple flavour symmetry breaking flavon fields. These contractions give rise to directions that are hard or impossible to obtain directly by breaking the flavour symmetry. Within this context, and using $S_4$ as the flavour symmetry to exemplify, we perform a phenomenological check of lepton flavour models built from pairing any two effective alignments up to order 2 (in flavon contractions). The check is performed for each pair of effective alignments in a framework with models of constrained sequential dominance type, in a basis where the charged leptons are diagonal. We thus obtain an indication of which effective alignments are interesting for model building, within this so-called $S_4$ landscape. We find three types of viable topologies and provide examples of models realizing this strategy for each topology.

arXiv comment18 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables

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