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Neutrino masses and mixing: a flavour symmetry roadmap

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-05 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Over the last ten years tri-bimaximal mixing has played an important role in modeling the flavour problem. We give a short review of the status of flavour symmetry models of neutrino mixing. We concentrate on non-Abelian discrete symmetries, which provide a simple way to account for the TBM pattern. We discuss phenomenological implications such as neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton flavour violation as well as theoretical aspects such as the possibility to explain quarks and leptons within a common framework, such as grand unified models.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6678,
  title  = {Neutrino masses and mixing: a flavour symmetry roadmap},
  author = {S. Morisi and J. W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6678},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables. Review written for the special issue on 'Flavor Symmetries', edited by S.Morisi, H.P.Nilles, & J.W.F.Valle, to appear in Fortschritte der Physik - Progress of Physics