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Golden Littlest Seesaw

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-03-14 v1

Abstract

We propose and analyse a new class of Littlest Seesaw models, with two right-handed neutrinos in their diagonal mass basis, based on preserving the first column of the Golden Ratio mixing matrix. We perform an exhaustive analysis of all possible remnant symmetries of the group A5A_5 which can be used to enforce various vacuum alignments for the flavon controlling solar mixing, for two simple cases of the atmospheric flavon vacuum alignment. The solar and atmospheric flavon vacuum alignments are enforced by {\em different} remnant symmetries. We examine the phenomenological viability of each of the possible Littlest Seesaw alignments in A5A_5, which preserve the first column of the Golden ratio mixing matrix, using figures and extensive tables of benchmark points and comparing our predictions to a recent global analysis of neutrino data. We also repeat the analysis for an alternative form of Golden Ratio mixing matrix.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.05307,
  title  = {Golden Littlest Seesaw},
  author = {Gui-Jun Ding and Stephen F. King and Cai-Chang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05307},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

32 pages, 7 figures

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