Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-03-12
Phys.Rev.D79:115017,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, six postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.115017
$\mu$-$\tau$ symmetry imposed on the neutrino mass matrix in the flavour basis is known to be quite predictive. We integrate this very specific neutrino symmetry into a more general framework based on the supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified theory. As in several other models, the fermion mass spectrum is determined by Hermitian mass matrices resulting from the renormalizable Yukawa couplings of the 16-plet of fermions with the Higgs fields transforming as $10, \bar{126},120$ representations of the SO(10) group. The $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetry is spontaneously broken through the 120-plet. Consequences of this scheme are considered for fermion masses using both type-I and type-II seesaw mechanism. This scenario is shown to lead to a generalized CP invariance of the mass matrices and vanishing CP violating phases if the Yukawa couplings are invariant under the $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetry. Small explicit breaking of the $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetry is then shown to provide a very good understanding of all the fermion masses and mixing. Detailed fits to the fermion spectrum are presented in several scenarios. One obtains a very good fit to all observables in the context of the type-I seesaw mechanism but type-II seesaw model also provides a good description except for the overall scale of the neutrino masses. Three major predictions on the leptonic mixing parameters in the type-I seesaw case are (1) the atmospheric mixing angle $\theta_{23}^{l}$ close to maximal, (2) $\theta_{13}^{l}$ close to the present upper bound and (3) negative but very small Dirac CP violating phase in the neutrino oscillations.
Joshipura Anjan S.
Kodrani Bhavik P.
Patel Ketan M.
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