Is S-4 the horizontal symmetry of tri-bimaximal lepton mixing?

Autor(en)

Walter Grimus, Luis Lavoura, Patrick Otto Ludl

Abstrakt

We determine the symmetry groups under which the charged-lepton and the Majorana-neutrino mass terms are invariant. We note that those two groups always exist trivially, i.e. independently of the presence of any symmetries in the Lagrangian, and that they always have the same form. Using this insight, we re-evaluate the recent claim that, whenever lepton mixing is tri-bimaximal, S_4 is the minimal unique horizontal-symmetry group of the Lagrangian of the lepton sector, with S_4 being determined by the symmetries of the lepton mass matrices. We discuss two models for tri-bimaximal mixing which serve as counterexamples to this claim. With these two models and some group-theoretical arguments we illustrate that there is no compelling reason for the uniqueness of S_4.

Organisation(en)

Teilchenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Journal

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

Band

36

ISSN

0954-3899

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/36/11/115007

Publikationsdatum

2009

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103036 Theoretische Physik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/is-s4-the-horizontal-symmetry-of-tribimaximal-lepton-mixing(e4d8c4fb-ee3e-42f4-9be8-c156f6957747).html