# EPS-HEP2021 conference

26-30 July 2021
Zoom
Europe/Berlin timezone

## Modullar Invariance Approch to the Flavour Problem: Fermion Mass Hierarchies and Residual Modular Symmetries

26 Jul 2021, 10:20
20m
Zoom

#### Zoom

Parallel session talk Neutrino Physics

### Speaker

Serguey Petcov (SISSA/INFN, Trieste, Italy)

### Description

We will discuss the approach to the flavour problem
based on modular invariance.
In modular-invariant models of flavour,
hierarchical fermion mass matrices may arise
solely due to the proximity of the modulus $\tau$
to a point of residual symmetry.
This mechanism does not require flavon fields, and modular
weights are not analogous to Froggatt-Nielsen charges.
We show that hierarchies depend on the decomposition
of field representations under the residual symmetry group.
We systematically go through the
possible fermion field representation choices which may yield
hierarchical structures in the vicinity of symmetric points,
for the four smallest finite modular groups, isomorphic
to $S_3$, $A_4$, $S_4$, and $A_5$, as well as for their double covers.
We find a restricted set of pairs of representations for which the
discussed mechanism may produce viable fermion (charged-lepton and quark)
mass hierarchies. After formulating the conditions for obtaining a viable lepton
mixing matrix in the symmetric limit, we construct a model in which both
the charged-lepton and neutrino sectors are free from fine-tuning.

First author Serguey Petcov Theoretical Particle Physics petcov@sissa.it

### Primary author

Serguey Petcov (SISSA/INFN, Trieste, Italy)