Conditions of general Z₂ symmetry and TM₁, 2 mixing for the minimal type-I seesaw mechanism in an arbitrary basis

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2022.115893zbMATH Open1500.81079arXiv2204.08607OpenAlexW4283780701MaRDI QIDQ2159786FDOQ2159786

Publication date: 2 August 2022

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, using a formula for the minimal type-I seesaw mechanism by

L D L^{T}

(or generalized Cholesky) decomposition, conditions of general

Z_{2}

-invariance for the neutrino mass matrix

m

is obtained in an arbitrary basis. The conditions are found to be

(M_{22} a_{i}^{+} - M_{12} b_{i}^{+}), (M_{22} a_{j}^{-} - M_{12} b_{j}^{-}) = - d e t M, b_{i}^{+}, b_{j}^{-}

for the

Z_{2}

-symmetric and -antisymmetric part of a Yukawa matrix

Y_{i j}^{p m} e q u i v (Y p m T Y)_{i j} / 2 e q u i v (a_{j}^{p m}, b_{j}^{p m})

and the right-handed neutrino mass matrix

M_{i j}

. In other words, the symmetric and antisymmetric part of

b_{i}

must be proportional to those of the quantity

i l d e a_{i} e q u i v a_{i} - M_{12} o v e r M_{22} b_{i}

. They are equivalent to the condition that

m

is block diagonalized by eigenvectors of the generator

T

. These results are applied to three

Z_{2}

symmetries, the

m u - a u

symmetry, the TM

_{1}

mixing, and the magic symmetry which predicts the TM

_{2}

mixing. For the case of TM

_{1, 2}

, the symmetry conditions become

M_{22}^{2}, i l d e a_{1}^{m T B M} i l d e a_{2}^{m T B M} = - d e t M, b_{1}^{m T B M} b_{2}^{m T B M}

and

M_{22}^{2}, i l d e a_{1, 2}^{m T B M} i l d e a_{3}^{m T B M} = - d e t M, b_{1, 2}^{m T B M} b_{3}^{m T B M}

with components

i l d e a_{i}^{m T B M}

and

b_{i}^{m T B M}

in the TBM basis

m a t h b f v_{1, 2, 3}

. In particular, for the TM

_{2}

mixing, the magic (anti-)symmetric Yukawa matrix with

S_{2} Y = p m Y

is phenomenologically excluded because it predicts

m_{2} = 0

or

m_{1}, m_{3} = 0

. In the case where Yukawa is not (anti-)symmetric, the mass singular values are displayed without a root sign.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08607

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zbMATH Keywords

neutrino mass matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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