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Flavour from the Axion: Predictive DFSZ Textures and Their Phenomenology

by Maaz Hayat (University of Melbourne)

→ Asia/Seoul
Room 1423 (KIAS)

Room 1423 (KIAS)
Description

Title: Flavour from the Axion: Predictive DFSZ Textures and Their Phenomenology

Speaker: Maaz Hayat

Abstract:

The Peccei–Quinn symmetry that solves the strong CP problem need not be flavour-blind. If it acts horizontally on the Standard Model quarks, a single anomalous $U(1)_{PQ}$  can simultaneously address the strong CP problem, supply a QCD axion dark matter candidate, and shape the fermion mass matrices. I will present the Minimal F-DFSZ framework: a class of flavoured DFSZ models in which the PQ symmetry is fully horizontal and the domain wall number is unity, allowing for a cosmologically viable post-inflationary axion. The horizontal charges enforce predictive texture-zero Yukawa matrices, so that the axion- and Higgs-mediated flavour-changing couplings are fixed in terms of Standard Model observables. I will discuss the phenomenology that follows — spanning axion, Higgs, and precision-flavour observables — and show how the predictivity of the framework translates into concrete constraints on the scale of new physics.