Golden ratio lepton mixing and nonzero reactor angle with $A_5$


Abstract in English

We furnish a supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model with a flavour discrete symmetry $A_5$ under which the lepton fields transform as an irreducible triplet. Additional (`flavon) superfields are used to break $A_5$ into a $mathbb{Z}_2 times mathbb{Z}_2$ subgroup in the charged-lepton sector and another $mathbb{Z}_2$ subgroup in the neutrino sector. The first column of the resulting lepton mixing matrix is predicted and has entries which are related to the golden ratio. Using the observed $theta_{13}$ as input, our model predicts a solar mixing angle $theta_{12}$ in very good agreement with experiment; it also predicts a correlation between the atmospheric mixing angle $theta_{23}$ and the $CP$-violating Dirac phase $delta$.

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