Partial μ-τ Textures and leptogenesis

Cherif Hamzaoui, Salah Nasri, Manuel Toharia

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Abstract

Motivated by the recent results from Daya Bay, Reno and Double Chooz Collaborations, we study the consequences of small departures from exact μ-τ symmetry in the neutrino sector, to accommodate a nonvanishing value of the element Ve3 from the leptonic mixing matrix. Within the seesaw framework, we identify simple patterns of Dirac mass matrices that lead to approximate μ-τ symmetric neutrino mass matrices, which are consistent with the neutrino oscillation data and lead to nonvanishing mixing angle Ve3 as well as precise predictions for the CP-violating phases. We also show that there is a transparent link between neutrino mixing angles and seesaw parameters, which we further explore within the context of leptogenesis as well as double beta decay phenomenology.

Original languageEnglish
Article number073019
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume89
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 22 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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