1302.2372 (Jiajun Liao et al.)

Seesaw mechanism with four texture zeros in the neutrino Yukawa matrix    [PDF]

Jiajun Liao, D. Marfatia, K. Whisnant

With the recent observation of nonzero \theta_{13}, five neutrino oscillation parameters are now known. By imposing four zeros in the Yukawa coupling matrix of the type I seesaw model, the number of parameters in the neutrino mass matrix is reduced to seven, and we are able to make predictions for the lightest neutrino mass, Dirac CP phase, and neutrinoless double beta decay. Four texture zeros in the Yukawa coupling matrix is equivalent to either a single texture zero or a single cofactor zero for an off-diagonal element of the light neutrino mass matrix. We find strong similarities between single texture zero models with one mass hierarchy and single cofactor zero models with the opposite mass hierarchy. In the context of a specific class of single-flavor leptogenesis models, we find additional constraints on the parameter space.

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