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Flavour physics from an approximate U(2)^3 symmetry

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The quark sector of the Standard Model exhibits an approximate U(2)^3 flavour symmetry. This symmetry, broken in specific directions dictated by minimality, can explain the success of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa picture of flavour mixing and CP violation, confirmed by the data so far, while allowing for observable deviations from it, as expected in most models of ElectroWeak Symmetry Breaking. Building on previous work in the specific context of supersymmetry, we analyze the expected effects and we quantify the current bounds in a general Effective Field Theory framework. As a further relevant example we then show how the U(2)^3 symmetry and its breaking can be implemented in a generic composite Higgs model and we make a first analysis of its peculiar consequences. We also discuss how some partial extension of U(2)^3 to the lepton sector can arise, both in general and in composite Higgs models. An optimistic though conceivable interpretation of the considerations developed in this paper gives reasons to think that new physics searches in the flavour sector may be about to explore an interesting realm of phenomena.

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Hierarchies from Higher Flavor Spin

hep-ph · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Yukawa hierarchies are generated from powers of fully anarchic spurions in higher SU(2) and SU(3) flavor representations via progressive rank lifting through composite outer products, with explicit models and predictions for FCNCs and stochastic gravitational waves.

Flavor hierarchies with nonminimal irreducible representations

hep-ph · 2025-10-03 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Introduces a new class of flavor models using non-minimal irreducible representations for the flavor-breaking spurion to generate fermion mass hierarchies accidentally from O(1) UV parameters via multiple insertions, relying on non-Abelian symmetries and predicting unique flavor-violating operators.

Light new physics and the $\tau$ lepton dipole moments

hep-ph · 2025-11-05 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

This work provides a comprehensive analysis of light new physics contributions to tau lepton dipole moments, detailing interpretations of asymmetry measurements for spin-0 and spin-1 bosons, their decoupling to the EFT limit, and a case study of a tauphilic vector boson at Belle II.

Hunting for Neutrino Texture Zeros with Muon and Tau Flavor Violation

hep-ph · 2025-11-11 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Two-zero textures in the neutrino mass matrix produce distinctive, testable correlations among charged lepton flavor violation processes, with some patterns suppressing muon-to-electron transitions while permitting tau decays at observable rates down to a 5-6 TeV cutoff.

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  • Hierarchies from Higher Flavor Spin hep-ph · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 28 · internal anchor

    Yukawa hierarchies are generated from powers of fully anarchic spurions in higher SU(2) and SU(3) flavor representations via progressive rank lifting through composite outer products, with explicit models and predictions for FCNCs and stochastic gravitational waves.

  • Light new physics and the $\tau$ lepton dipole moments: prospects at Belle II hep-ph · 2025-10-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 89 · internal anchor

    Light new particles generate asymmetries in e+e- to tau+tau- that allow model-dependent constraints on tau dipole moments, including non-zero effects without electron polarization via imaginary parts.

  • Flavor hierarchies with nonminimal irreducible representations hep-ph · 2025-10-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 14 · internal anchor

    Introduces a new class of flavor models using non-minimal irreducible representations for the flavor-breaking spurion to generate fermion mass hierarchies accidentally from O(1) UV parameters via multiple insertions, relying on non-Abelian symmetries and predicting unique flavor-violating operators.

  • Light new physics and the $\tau$ lepton dipole moments hep-ph · 2025-11-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 95 · internal anchor

    This work provides a comprehensive analysis of light new physics contributions to tau lepton dipole moments, detailing interpretations of asymmetry measurements for spin-0 and spin-1 bosons, their decoupling to the EFT limit, and a case study of a tauphilic vector boson at Belle II.

  • Cosmological History of Flavour Deconstruction Models: Constraints from Monopole Production hep-ph · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · none · ref 11 · internal anchor

    Flavour deconstruction models with semi-simple gauge groups generically produce light monopoles that require low-scale reheating after inflation to satisfy cosmological and astrophysical bounds.

  • Hunting for Neutrino Texture Zeros with Muon and Tau Flavor Violation hep-ph · 2025-11-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 34 · internal anchor

    Two-zero textures in the neutrino mass matrix produce distinctive, testable correlations among charged lepton flavor violation processes, with some patterns suppressing muon-to-electron transitions while permitting tau decays at observable rates down to a 5-6 TeV cutoff.

  • Probing $\tau$ lepton dipole moments at future Lepton Colliders hep-ph · 2026-04-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 20

    Future lepton colliders can improve existing constraints on the tau lepton's dipole moments by several orders of magnitude through complementary channels.