Origin of quark-lepton flavor in SO(10) with type II seesaw mechanism Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Diverse mass and mixing patterns between the quarks and leptons makes it challenging to construct a simple grand unified theory of flavor. We show that SO(10) supersymmetry grand unified theories with type II seesaw mechanism giving neutrino masses provide a natural framework for addressing this issue. A simple ansatz that the dominant Yukawa matrix (the 10-Higgs coupling to matter) has rank one appears to simultaneously explain both the large lepton mixings as well as the observed quark flavor hierarchy in these models. A testable prediction of this ansatz is the neutrino mixing, Ue3, which should be observable in planned long baseline experiments. 2009 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

author list (cited authors)

  • Dutta, B., Mimura, Y., & Mohapatra, R. N.

citation count

  • 29

complete list of authors

  • Dutta, Bhaskar||Mimura, Yukihiro||Mohapatra, RN

publication date

  • November 2009