Proton hexality from an anomalous flavor image and neutrino masses: Linking to the string scale Original Research Article

We devise minimalistic gauged image Froggatt–Nielsen models which at low-energy give rise to the recently suggested discrete gauge image-symmetry, proton hexality, thus stabilizing the proton. Assuming three generations of right-handed neutrinos, with the proper choice of X-charges, we obtain viable neutrino masses. Furthermore, we find scenarios such that no X-charged hidden sector superfields are needed, which from a bottom–up perspective allows the calculation of image, image and imageʹs Kač–Moody levels. The only mass scale apart from image is image.