Speaker
Prof.
Zurab Berezhiani
(Univ. L'Aquila and Gran Sasso National Laboratories)
Description
I discuss the gauge flavor symmetry (SU(3) and its modifications) between three fermion families. The mass hierarchy between families and
the pattern of mixing angles is determined by the breaking pattern of this symmetry which can also lead to predictive schemes. I shall discuss the properties of flavor gauge bosons which should generically induce flavor-nondiagonal couplings, the questions what types of flavor-violating processes they can mediate and how light they can be and whether they can be directly discovered at the LHC.
Primary author
Prof.
Zurab Berezhiani
(Univ. L'Aquila and Gran Sasso National Laboratories)
