Neutrino mass matrices with one texture equality and one vanishing neutrino mass

作者:Han, Jinzhong*; Wang, Ruihong; Wang, Weijian; Wei, Xing-Ning
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017, 96(7): 075043.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.075043

摘要

In the light of latest data of neutrino oscillation experiments, we carry out a systematic investigation on the texture structures of Majorana neutrino mass matrix M-u, which contain one vanishing neutrino mass and an equality between two matrix elements. Among 15 logically possible patterns, it is found that for norm order (m(3) > m(2) > m(1) = 0) of neutrino masses only three of them are compatible with recent experimental data at the 3 sigma level, while for inverted order (m(2) > m(1) > m(3) = 0) two patterns is phenomenologically allowed. In the numerical analysis, we perform a scan over the parameter space of all viable patterns to get a large sample of scattering points. We present the implications of each allowed pattern for three mixing angles (theta(12), theta(2), theta(3)), leptonic CP violation and neutrinoless double-beta decay, predicting strong correlations between oscillation parameters. The theoretical realization of a concrete example is discussed in the framework of Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism.