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In this work, we investigate a predictive class of neutrino mass matrices characterized by one texture zero and one vanishing sub-trace within the framework of the scotogenic model, wherein neutrino masses, dark matter, and neutrinoless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Ankush , Sangeeta Dey , Rishu Verma , Manoj Kumar , B. C. Chauhan , Mahadev Patgiri

We give a classification of heavy Majorana neutrino mass matrices with up to three texture zeroes, assuming the Dirac masses of the neutrinos to be of the same form as the ones of the up-quarks in the five texture zero solutions for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 G. K. Leontaris , S. Lola , C. Scheich , J. D. Vergados

By using a model independent Monte Carlo approach, we study the possible structure of charged and neutral lepton mass matrices, under the assumption of an U(2) horizontal symmetry (additional to the usual Standard Model ones) involving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Antonelli , F. Caravaglios , R. Ferrari , M. Picariello

A minimal and predictive neutrino mass matrix texture for Majorana neutrino is proposed. The texture favours the normal hierarchy of neutrino mass eigenvalues. It further predicts the octant of $\theta_{23}$, constraints $\delta$, gives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Sagar Tirtha Goswami , Pralay Chakraborty , Subhankar Roy

We provide a classification of generalized CP symmetries preserved by the neutrino mass matrix according to the number of zero entries in the associated transformation matrix. We determine the corresponding constrained form of the lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-10 Peng Chen , Gui-Jun Ding , Felix Gonzalez-Canales , J. W. F. Valle

In the context of Standard Model (SM) extensions, the seesaw mechanism provides the most natural explanation for the smallness of neutrino masses. In this work we consider the most economical type-I seesaw realization in which two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 D. M. Barreiros , R. G. Felipe , F. R. Joaquim

In view of the recent measurement of nonzero $\theta_{13}$, we carry out a systematic study of a simple class of neutrino models that has one diagonal texture or cofactor zero in the mass matrix. There are seven free parameters in the model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-27 Jiajun Liao , Danny Marfatia , Kerry Whisnant

We study neutrino mass matrices with one texture equality and the neutrino mixing matrix having either its first (TM$_1$) or second (TM$_2$) column identical to that of the tribimaximal mixing matrix. We found that out of total fifteen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-07 S. Dev , Desh Raj

We note that the emerging features of lepton mixing can be reproduced if, with inverted neutrino mass ordering, both the smallest neutrino mass and the $\tau\tau$ element of the neutrino mass matrix vanish. Then, the atmospheric neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Luís Lavoura , Werner Rodejohann , Atsushi Watanabe

We examine the possibility that a certain class of neutrino mass matrices, namely those with two independent vanishing minors in the flavor basis, regardless of being invertible or not, is sufficient to describe current data. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. I. Lashin , N. Chamoun

An explicit form of charged--lepton mass matrix, predicting $ m_\tau = 1776.80 $~MeV from the experimental values of $ m_e $ and $ m_\mu$ (in good agreement with the experimental figure $ m_\tau = 1777.05^{+0.29}_{-0.26}$ MeV), is applied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wojciech Krolikowski

We study the symmetric texture of geometric form with 2-zeros to see if it is consistent with the presently-known neutrino masses and mixings. In the neutrino mass matrix elements we obtain numerically the allowed region of the parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Masako Bando , Satoru Kaneko , Midori Obara , Morimitu Tanimoto

In this paper, we impose a magic symmetry on the neutrino mass matrix $m_{\nu}$ with universal four-zero texture and diagonal reflection symmetries. Due to the magic symmetry, the MNS matrix has trimaximal mixing inevitably. Since the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-25 Masaki J. S. Yang

In the light of latest neutrino oscillation data, we have investigated the one zero Majorana neutrino mass matrix $M_{\nu}$ with zero sum condition of mass eigen values in the flavor basis, where charged lepton mass matrix is diagonal.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-07 Madan Singh

A systematic analysis on the phenomenologically allowed textures in Hermitian quark mass matrices with four texture-zeros is presented. The current data allow a full determination of the mass matrix elements, provided that the actual number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu-Feng Zhou

We investigate the physical meaning of some of the texture zeros which appear in most of the Ansatze on leptonic masses and their mixing. It is shown that starting from arbitrary lepton mass matrices and making suitable weak basis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-16 G. C. Branco , D. Emmanuel-Costa , R. Gonzalez Felipe , H. Serodio

Using a recent global analysis result after the precise measurement of $\theta_ {13}$, a possible Herimtian neutrino mixing ansatz is discussed, the mixing matrix is symmetric and also symmetric with respect with the second diagonal line in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-21 Wu-zhong Guo , Miao Li

Implications of the lepton mixing angles, in particular of theta_13, have been investigated for minimal as well as non-minimal Fritzsch-like textures for the case of Majorana neutrinos. Both, in minimal texture (texture 6 zero lepton mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Priyanka Fakay , Samandeep Sharma , Rohit Verma , Gulsheen Ahuja , Manmohan Gupta

We investigate the texture of fermion mass matrices in theories with partial unification (for example $ SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times SU(4)_c$) at a scale $\sim 10^{12}$ GeV. Starting with the low energy values of the masses and the mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Dutta , S. Nandi

We show that the four-zero texture of Hermitian quark mass matrices can survive current experimental tests: it is able to yield sufficiently large predictions for the flavor mixing parameter $|V_{ub}/V_{cb}|$ and the CP-violating parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-23 Harald Fritzsch , Zhi-zhong Xing