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Leptonic flavor from a modular A4 symmetry: UV mediators and SMEFT realizations

Adrián Moreno-Sánchez*

Ajdin Palavrić†

  • Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, E–18071 Granada, Spain

  • *Contact author: adri@ugr.es
  • †Contact author: ajdin.palavric@unibas.ch
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Phys. Rev. D 112, 075002 – Published 1 October, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/hdgd-cq45

Abstract

The absence of direct evidence for new physics at current collider energies motivates the study of indirect effects within the framework of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). In this work, we investigate the role of the A4 discrete flavor symmetry in constraining the UV dynamics, giving rise to dimension-six SMEFT operators involving leptons. We consider renormalizable interactions between SM fields and heavy mediators, classified according to their A4 transformation properties in the modular framework, where Yukawa structures are encoded in modular forms. Restricting our analysis to UV interactions with at most a single modular form insertion, we study the resulting classification of A4 UV mediator irreducible representations and explore their implications across a range of observables, including both lepton-flavor-conserving and lepton-flavor-violating processes. A detailed phenomenological analysis is carried out, incorporating both tree-level and one-loop matching contributions for scalar and fermionic mediators, as well as leading-log renormalization group equation effects in case of vectors.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 075002– Published 1 October, 2025
  • Received 25 May 2025
  • Accepted 11 September 2025
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