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Leptonic Dynamical Yukawa Couplings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-16 v2

Abstract

A dynamical origin of the Yukawa couplings is a promising scenario to explain the flavour puzzle. The focus of this letter is set on the role of the neutrino Majorana character: when an O(2)NRO(2)_{N_R} flavour symmetry acts on the right-handed neutrino sector, the minimum of the scalar potential allows for large mixing angles -in contrast to the simplest quark case- and predicts a maximal Majorana phase. This leads to a strong correlation between neutrino mass hierarchy and mixing pattern. Realistic solutions point to the existence of three heavy right-handed neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5922,
  title  = {Leptonic Dynamical Yukawa Couplings},
  author = {R. Alonso and M. B. Gavela and D. Hernandez and L. Merlo and S. Rigolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5922},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages. V2: references added; results unchanged

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