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Littlest mu-tau seesaw

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-06-26 v2

Abstract

We propose a μτ\mu-\tau reflection symmetric Littlest Seesaw (μτ\mu\tau-LSS) model. In this model the two mass parameters of the LSS model are fixed to be in a special ratio by symmetry, so that the resulting neutrino mass matrix in the flavour basis (after the seesaw mechanism has been applied) satisfies μτ\mu-\tau reflection symmetry and has only one free adjustable parameter, namely an overall free mass scale. However the physical low energy predictions of the neutrino masses and lepton mixing angles and CP phases are subject to renormalisation group (RG) corrections, which introduces further parameters. Although the high energy model is rather complicated, involving (S4×U(1))2(S_4\times U(1))^2 and supersymmetry, with many flavons and driving fields, the low energy neutrino mass matrix has ultimate simplicity.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06877,
  title  = {Littlest mu-tau seesaw},
  author = {Stephen F. King and Ye-Ling Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06877},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

26 pages, 1 figure, discussions and references added, accepted for publication in JHEP

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