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Leptonic Dynamical Yukawa Couplings

A dynamical origin of the Yukawa couplings is a promising scenario to explain the flavour puzzle. The focus of this letter is set on the role of the neutrino Majorana character: when an $O(2)_{N_R}$ flavour symmetry acts on the right-handed neutrino sector, the minimum of the scalar potential allows...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alonso, R., Gavela, M.B., Hernández, D., Merlo, L., Rigolin, S.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2013)069
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1558019
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Sumario:A dynamical origin of the Yukawa couplings is a promising scenario to explain the flavour puzzle. The focus of this letter is set on the role of the neutrino Majorana character: when an $O(2)_{N_R}$ flavour symmetry acts on the right-handed neutrino sector, the minimum of the scalar potential allows for large mixing angles -in contrast to the simplest quark case- and predicts a maximal Majorana phase. This leads to a strong correlation between neutrino mass hierarchy and mixing pattern. Realistic solutions point to the existence of three heavy right-handed neutrinos.