Residual Z2×Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2 symmetries and lepton mixing

Jan 20, 2014
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 731 (2014) 331-336
  • Published: Apr 4, 2014
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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