Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2023)

Moduli trapping mechanism in modular flavor symmetric models

  • Shota Kikuchi,
  • Tatsuo Kobayashi,
  • Kaito Nasu,
  • Yusuke Yamada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2023)081
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 8
pp. 1 – 34

Abstract

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Abstract We discuss how the moduli in modular flavor symmetric models dynamically select enhanced symmetry points at which the residual modular symmetry renders extra matter fields massless. The moduli dynamics non-perturbatively produces the extra matter particles, which gives (time-dependent) effective potential that traps the moduli to enhanced symmetry points. We show analytic estimates of particle production rate consistent with numerical results, and the dynamics of moduli based on the analytic estimates.

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