1. Exploration of 6-dimensional models with non trivial topology and their predictions for fermions masses and mixings, neutrino physics, flavour changing interactions and CP violation
- Author
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Frère, Jean-Marie, Clerbaux, Barbara, Tiniakov, Petr, Lopez Honorez, Laura, Troitsky, Sergey V., Mollet, Simon, Frère, Jean-Marie, Clerbaux, Barbara, Tiniakov, Petr, Lopez Honorez, Laura, Troitsky, Sergey V., and Mollet, Simon
- Abstract
In this thesis, we study several scenarios which go beyond the Standard Model of particle physics with the aim of gaining a better understanding for the multiplication of fermion families, their masses and mixings pattern and its relation to CP violation. The common feature of the models we envisaged (and the guiding principle of the thesis) is the introduction of extra space dimensions. In a first attempt to explain the fermion mass structure, we elaborate on a model with two extra-dimensions and a Nielsen- Olesen vortex background established on it. In this framework, three families in 4D can be seen as different modes of a single generation in 6D, while their extra-dimensional wavefunctions turn out highly constrained by the dynamics, which allows to determined the mass matrices with few parameters. Moreover, with a few additional hypotheses only, it is possible to simultaneously account for the striking differences between neutrinos and charged fermions. After a summary of the model, we illustrate this with the explicit formulation of a benchmark model which reproduces convincingly all the mass and mixing parameters of the Standard Model, taking advantage of new, more precise numerical solutions of the field equations, and including the recent measurements of the Standard Model scalar boson mass and of the neutrino heta_13 mixing angle (the latter has however been correctly predicted by the model before its first measurement). We then turn to the predictions which mainly concern the neutrino and gauge sectors. In the former, we remind the Majorana nature, and the natural tendency for inverted hierarchy pattern with an almost maximally suppressed neutrinoless double beta decay. On the other hand, we predict new (neutral) gauge bosons whose couplings to fermions are not flavour-diagonal but are however constrained (in their strength and their flavour structure) by the 6D anatomy of the theory. We compare their detectability in precision low energy processes and at, Doctorat en Sciences, info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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- 2016