| DATE: |
2013-06-25 11:00 - 12:00 |
| PLACE: |
Kenkyu Honkan 1F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TITLE: |
Quark and Lepton Flavor Symmetry and the 126 GeV Higgs Boson |
| CONTACT: |
Tetsutaro Higaki, thigaki-AT-post.kek.jp |
| SPEAKER: |
Prof. Ernest Ma (University of California Riverside) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| ABSTRACT: |
In the post-Higgs era, the theoretical challenge in flavor symmetry is to show how it should also predict a scalar boson very much like the observed 126 GeV particle at the LHC. I will discuss such a model of quark and lepton flavor symmetry based on $S_3$ proposed originally in 2004. I will show that this model has the unique prediction of a measurable branching fraction of up to $10^{-7}$ for $B_s o au^+ mu^-$, but that for $B_s o au^- mu^+$ is suppressed by an additional factor of $(m_mu/m_ au)^2$. |
