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Seesaw neutrino masses from an $A_4$ model with two equal vacuum expectation values

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-03-13 v3

Abstract

We present a model for the lepton sector, with A4A_4 horizontal-symmetry group, in which two of the Higgs doublets in an A4A_4 triplet of Higgs doublets have equal vacuum expectation values. The model makes well-defined predictions for the effective light-neutrino Majorana mass matrix. We show that those predictions are compatible with the experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.1111.5859,
  title  = {Seesaw neutrino masses from an $A_4$ model with two equal vacuum expectation values},
  author = {P. M. Ferreira and L. Lavoura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5859},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

22 pages, 8 figures; v2: added more complete analysis of LEP and Tevatron bounds