A three-parameter model for the neutrino mass matrix
| dc.creator | Grimus, W. | |
| dc.creator | Lavoura, L. | |
| dc.date | 2006-11-10 | |
| dc.date | 2007-05-24 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:42:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:42:14Z | |
| dc.description | Using the type-II seesaw mechanism with three Higgs doublets phi_alpha (alpha = e, mu, tau) and four Higgs triplets, we build a model for lepton mixing based on a 384-element horizontal symmetry group, generated by the permutation group S_3 and by six Z_2 transformations. The charged-lepton mass matrix is diagonal; the symmetries of the model would require all the three masses m_alpha to be equal, but different vacuum expectation values of the phi_alpha allow the m_alpha to split. The number of parameters in the Majorana neutrino mass matrix m_nu depends on two options: full breaking of the permutation group S_3, or leaving a mu--tau interchange symmetry intact; and hard or spontaneous violation of CP. We discuss in detail the case with the minimal number of three parameters, wherein m_nu is real, symmetric under mu--tau interchange, and has equal diagonal elements. In that case, CP is conserved in lepton mixing, atmospheric neutrino mixing is maximal, and theta_{13} = 0; moreover, the type of neutrino mass spectrum and the absolute neutrino mass scale are sensitive functions of the solar mixing angle. | |
| dc.description | 16 pages, one eps figure; some clarifications added, contains new section 5, version accepted for publication in J. Phys. G | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0611149 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0611149 | |
| dc.identifier | J.Phys.G34:1757-1770,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/0954-3899/34/7/014 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/181874 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | A three-parameter model for the neutrino mass matrix | |
| dc.type | text |