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Neutrino Oscillations from Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-24 v1

Abstract

I discuss a SUSY-GUT model with a non-Abelian discrete family symmetry that explains the observed hierarchical pattern of quark and lepton masses. This SO(10)×Δ(75)SO(10) \times \Delta(75) model predicts modified quadratic seesaw neutrino masses and mixing angles which are interesting for three reasons: i.) they offer a solution to the solar neutrino problem, ii.) the tau neutrino has the right mass for a cosmologically interesting hot dark matter candidate, and iii.) they suggest a positive result for the νμντ\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_\tau oscillation searches by the CHORUS and NOMAD collaborations. However, the model shares some problems with many other predictive GUT models of quark and lepton masses. Well-known and once successful mass and angle relations, such as the SU(5)SU(5) relation λbGUT=λτGUT\lambda_b^{GUT}=\lambda_\tau^{GUT}, are found to be in conflict with the current experimental status. Attempts to correct these relations seem to lead to rather contrived models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411383,
  title  = {Neutrino Oscillations from Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries},
  author = {Martin Schmaltz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411383},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

16 pages, uses harvmac, epsf, tables, 4 figures