Residual symmetries and lepton mixing
Jan 20, 20146 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 731 (2014) 331-336
- Published: Apr 4, 2014
e-Print:
- 1401.5036 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- CFTP-14-002,
- UWTHPH-2014-5
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We consider two novel scenarios of residual symmetries of the lepton mass matrices. Firstly we assume a Z2×Z2 symmetry Gℓ for the charged-lepton mass matrix and a Z2 symmetry Gν for the light neutrino mass matrix. With this setting, the moduli of the elements of one column of the lepton mixing matrix are fixed up to a reordering. One may interchange the roles of Gℓ and Gν in this scenario, thereby constraining a row, instead of a column, of the mixing matrix. Secondly we assume a residual symmetry group Gℓ≅Zm ( m>2 ) which is generated by a matrix with a doubly-degenerate eigenvalue. Then, with Gν≅Z2×Z2 the moduli of the elements of a row of the lepton mixing matrix get fixed. Using the library of small groups we have performed a search for groups which may embed Gℓ and Gν in each of these two scenarios. We have found only two phenomenologically viable possibilities, one of them constraining a column and the other one a row of the mixing matrix.Note:
- 14 pages, 1 figure
- new physics
- lepton: mixing
- lepton: mass
- lepton: charged particle
- lepton: symmetry
- symmetry: Z(2) x Z(2)
- symmetry: Z(2)
- neutrino: mass
- neutrino: mixing
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