Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: We present a comprehensive analysis of neutrino mass and lepton mixing in theories with A 4 modular symmetry, where the only flavon field is the single modulus field τ, and all masses and Yukawa couplings are modular forms. Similar to previous analyses, we discuss all the simplest neutrino sectors arising from both the Weinberg operator and the type I seesaw mechanism, with lepton doublets and right-handed neutrinos assumed to be triplets of A 4. Unlike previous analyses, we allow right-handed charged leptons to transform as all combinations of 1, 1′ and 1′′ representations of A 4, using the simplest different modular weights to break the degeneracy, leading to ten different charged lepton Yukawa matrices, instead of the usual one. This implies ten different Weinberg models and thirty different type I seesaw models, which we analyse in detail. We find that fourteen models for both NO and IO neutrino mass ordering can accommodate the data, as compared to one in previous analyses, providing many new possibilities.
Source: Journal of High Energy Physics
Authors: Gui-Jun Ding, Stephen F. King, Xiang-Gan Liu
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2965336982