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Tri-direct CP in the littlest seesaw playground

Tri-direct CP in the littlest seesaw playground
Tri-direct CP in the littlest seesaw playground

We discuss spontaneously broken CP symmetry in two right-handed neutrino models based on the idea of having a different residual flavour symmetry, together with a different residual CP symmetry, associated with each of the two right-handed neutrinos. The charged lepton sector also has a different residual flavour symmetry. In such a tri-direct CP approach, we show that the combination of the three residual flavour and two residual CP symmetries provides a new way of fixing the parameters. To illustrate the approach, we revisit the Littlest Seesaw (LSS) model based on S4 and then propose new variants which have not so far appeared in the literature, with different predictions for each variant. We analyse numerically the predictions of the new variants, and then propose an explicit model which can realise one of the successful benchmark points, based on the atmospheric flavon vacuum alignment (1, ω2, ω) and the solar flavon vacuum alignment (1, −7/2, −7/2).

Discrete Symmetries, Neutrino Physics
1126-6708
Ding, Gui Jun
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King, Stephen F.
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Li, Cai Chang
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Ding, Gui Jun
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King, Stephen F.
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Li, Cai Chang
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Ding, Gui Jun, King, Stephen F. and Li, Cai Chang (2018) Tri-direct CP in the littlest seesaw playground. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 (12), [3]. (doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2018)003).

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Abstract

We discuss spontaneously broken CP symmetry in two right-handed neutrino models based on the idea of having a different residual flavour symmetry, together with a different residual CP symmetry, associated with each of the two right-handed neutrinos. The charged lepton sector also has a different residual flavour symmetry. In such a tri-direct CP approach, we show that the combination of the three residual flavour and two residual CP symmetries provides a new way of fixing the parameters. To illustrate the approach, we revisit the Littlest Seesaw (LSS) model based on S4 and then propose new variants which have not so far appeared in the literature, with different predictions for each variant. We analyse numerically the predictions of the new variants, and then propose an explicit model which can realise one of the successful benchmark points, based on the atmospheric flavon vacuum alignment (1, ω2, ω) and the solar flavon vacuum alignment (1, −7/2, −7/2).

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Accepted/In Press date: 20 November 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 December 2018
Published date: December 2018
Keywords: Discrete Symmetries, Neutrino Physics

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Local EPrints ID: 427195
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427195
ISSN: 1126-6708
PURE UUID: 33a4bffa-977a-4e3e-8166-5280fff59cac

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Author: Gui Jun Ding
Author: Stephen F. King
Author: Cai Chang Li

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