Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-11-15
Eur.Phys.J. C40 (2005) 259-268
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 2 figures. Comments about mu-tau symmetry and U(1) symmetries added. To appear in EPJC
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s2005-02133-1
We consider the flavor symmetry L_mu - L_tau for the neutrino mass matrix. The most general neutrino mass matrix conserving L_mu - L_tau predicts quasi-degenerate neutrino masses with one maximal and two zero mixing angles. The presence of L_mu - L_tau can also be motivated by the near-bimaximal form of the neutrino mixing matrix. Furthermore, it is a special case of mu-tau symmetric mass matrices. Breaking the flavor symmetry by adding a small flavor-blind term to the neutrino mass matrix and/or by applying radiative corrections is shown to reproduce the observed neutrino oscillation phenomenology. Both the normal and inverted mass ordering can be accommodated within this scheme. Moderate cancellation for neutrinoless double beta decay is expected. The observables U_{e3}^2 and |1/2 - \sin^2\theta_{23}| are proportional to the inverse of the fourth power of the common neutrino mass scale. We comment on whether the atmospheric neutrino mixing is expected to lie above or below pi/4. We finally present a model based on the see-saw mechanism which generates a light neutrino mass matrix with an (approximate) L_mu - L_tau flavor symmetry. This is a minimal model with just one standard Higgs doublet and three heavy right-handed neutrinos. It needs only small values for the soft L_mu - L_tau breaking terms to reproduce the phenomenological viable mass textures analyzed.
Choubey Sandhya
Rodejohann Werner
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