Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space
Abstract We discuss how seesaw neutrino models can be graphically represented in lepton flavour space. We examine various popular models and show how this representation helps understanding their properties and connection with experimental data showing in particular how certain texture zero models a...
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| description | Abstract We discuss how seesaw neutrino models can be graphically represented in lepton flavour space. We examine various popular models and show how this representation helps understanding their properties and connection with experimental data showing in particular how certain texture zero models are ruled out. We also introduce a new matrix, the bridging matrix, that brings from the light to the heavy neutrino mass flavour basis, showing how this is related to the orthogonal matrix and how different quantities are easily expressed through it. We then show how one can randomly generate orthogonal and leptonic mixing matrices uniformly covering all flavour space in an unbiased way (Haar-distributed matrices). Using the isomorphism between the group of complex rotations and the Lorentz group, we also introduce the concept of Lorentz boost in flavour space for a seesaw model and how this has an insightful physical interpretation. Finally, as a significant application, we consider N 2-leptogenesis. Using current experimental values of low energy neutrino parameters, we show that the probability that at least one flavoured decay parameter of the lightest right-handed neutrino is smaller than unity is about 49% (to be compared with the tiny probability that the total decay parameter is smaller than unity, P (K I < 1) ∼ 0.1%, confirming the crucial role played by flavour effects). On the other hand when m 1 ≳ 0.1 eV this probability reduces to less than 5%, showing how also N 2-leptogenesis disfavours degenerate light neutrinos. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a88baa9baee74f1db62b0d7b2931ef562022-12-22T00:14:01ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792019-05-012019512410.1007/JHEP05(2019)011Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour spacePasquale Di Bari0Michele Re Fiorentin1Rome Samanta2Physics and Astronomy, University of SouthamptonCenter for Sustainable Future Technologies, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaPhysics and Astronomy, University of SouthamptonAbstract We discuss how seesaw neutrino models can be graphically represented in lepton flavour space. We examine various popular models and show how this representation helps understanding their properties and connection with experimental data showing in particular how certain texture zero models are ruled out. We also introduce a new matrix, the bridging matrix, that brings from the light to the heavy neutrino mass flavour basis, showing how this is related to the orthogonal matrix and how different quantities are easily expressed through it. We then show how one can randomly generate orthogonal and leptonic mixing matrices uniformly covering all flavour space in an unbiased way (Haar-distributed matrices). Using the isomorphism between the group of complex rotations and the Lorentz group, we also introduce the concept of Lorentz boost in flavour space for a seesaw model and how this has an insightful physical interpretation. Finally, as a significant application, we consider N 2-leptogenesis. Using current experimental values of low energy neutrino parameters, we show that the probability that at least one flavoured decay parameter of the lightest right-handed neutrino is smaller than unity is about 49% (to be compared with the tiny probability that the total decay parameter is smaller than unity, P (K I < 1) ∼ 0.1%, confirming the crucial role played by flavour effects). On the other hand when m 1 ≳ 0.1 eV this probability reduces to less than 5%, showing how also N 2-leptogenesis disfavours degenerate light neutrinos.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)011Beyond Standard ModelCosmology of Theories beyond the SMCP violationNeutrino Physics |
| spellingShingle | Pasquale Di Bari Michele Re Fiorentin Rome Samanta Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space Journal of High Energy Physics Beyond Standard Model Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM CP violation Neutrino Physics |
| title | Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space |
| title_full | Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space |
| title_fullStr | Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space |
| title_short | Representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space |
| title_sort | representing seesaw neutrino models and their motion in lepton flavour space |
| topic | Beyond Standard Model Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM CP violation Neutrino Physics |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)011 |
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