Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-07-19
JHEP 1109:127,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
21 pages, 1 figure, version to appear in JHEP
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP09(2011)127
A seesaw mechanism in an extra-dimension, known as the split seesaw mechanism, provides a natural way to realize a splitting mass spectrum of right-handed neutrinos. It leads to one keV sterile neutrino as a dark matter candidate and two heavy right-handed neutrinos being responsible for leptogenesis to explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We study models based on $A_4$ flavor symmetry in the context of the split seesaw mechanism. It is pointed out that most of known $A_4$ flavor models with three right-handed neutrinos being $A_4$ triplet suffer from a degeneracy problem for the bulk mass terms, which disturbs the split mechanism for right-handed neutrino mass spectrum. Then we construct a new $A_4$ flavor model to work in the split seesaw mechanism. In the model, the experimentally observed neutrino masses and mixing angles can be realized from both type I+II seesaw contributions. The model predicts the $\mu-\tau$ symmetry in the neutrino mass matrix at the leading order, resulting in the vanishing $\theta_{13}$ and maximal $\theta_{23}$. The flavor symmetry $A_4$ is broken via the flavon vacuum alignment which can be obtained from the orbifold compactification. The model can be consistent with all data of neutrino oscillation experiments, cosmological discussions of dark matter abundance, leptogenesis, and recent astrophysical data.
Adulpravitchai Adisorn
Takahashi Ryo
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