Tri-bimaximal lepton mixing from symmetry only

Author(s)
Walter Grimus, Luis Lavoura
Abstract

We construct a model for tri-bimaximal lepton mixing which employs only family symmetries and their soft breaking; neither vacuum alignment nor supersymmetry, extra dimensions, or non-renormalizable terms are used in our model. It is an extension of the Standard Model making use of the seesaw mechanism with five right-handed neutrino singlets. The scalar sector comprises four Higgs doublets and one complex gauge singlet. The horizontal symmetry of our model is based on the permutation group S3 of the lepton families together with the three family lepton numbers—united this constitutes a symmetry group ?(6?2). The model makes no predictions for the neutrino masses.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2009
No. of pages
15
ISSN
1029-8479
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/013
Publication date
2009
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103036 Theoretical physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/379f6093-4f0b-4ccf-bdae-7250c5544cd8