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Experimental Constraints on Seesaw Parameters in the Wigner-like Parametrization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

By introducing three right-handed neutrino singlets, the popular canonical seesaw mechanism is able to simultaneously explain the tiny masses of Majorana neutrinos and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. In this paper, we provide an explicit calculation in this model with the help of the Wigner-like parametrization. We work in a special ansatz where both mDmD{\bf m}_{\rm D}^\dagger {\bf m}_{\rm D}^{} and mRmR{\bf m}_{\rm R}^\dagger {\bf m}_{\rm R}^{} are diagonal, with mD{\bf m}_{\rm D}^{} and mR{\bf m}_{\rm R}^{} being accordingly the Dirac and Majorana neutrino mass matrices, and [mDmD,mRmR]=0[{\bf m}_{\rm D}^\dagger {\bf m}_{\rm D}^{}, {\bf m}_{\rm R}^\dagger {\bf m}_{\rm R}^{}] = {\bf 0} holds. Physical observables can be exactly calculated without any approximation, where three light Majorana neutrino masses mim_i^{}, leptonic mixing angles θij\theta_{ij}^{}, CP-violating phases {δ,ρ,σ}\{\delta,\rho,\sigma\}, and three rotation angles ϑi\vartheta_i^{} describing the hierarchy between electroweak and seesaw scales are chosen as input parameters. For demonstration, we evaluate the branching fractions of the lepton-flavor-violating decays of charged leptons and the CP-violating asymmetries in the resonant thermal leptogenesis. The model parameters are constrained by the latest experimental limits.

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@article{arxiv.2504.05057,
  title  = {Experimental Constraints on Seesaw Parameters in the Wigner-like Parametrization},
  author = {Jihong Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05057},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, 4 figures, more discussions and references added, version accepted by PLB

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