Stable lepton mass matrices

2016/04/29 by Valerie Domcke, Andrea Romanino
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Electron #Lepton #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2016)031

16 pages + appendices, 4 figures

arxiv created 2016/04/29 · openalex publication_date 2016/06/01 · arxiv updated 2016/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We study natural lepton mass matrices, obtained assuming the stability of physical flavour observables with respect to the variations of individual matrix elements. We identify all four possible stable neutrino textures from algebraic conditions on their entries. Two of them turn out to be uniquely associated to specific neutrino mass patterns. We then concentrate on the semi-degenerate pattern, corresponding to an overall neutrino mass scale within the reach of future experiments. In this context we show that i) the neutrino and charged lepton mixings and mass matrices are largely constrained by the requirement of stability, ii) naturalness considerations give a mild preference for the Majorana phase most relevant for neutrinoless double-β decay, α ∼ π/2, and iii) SU(5) unification allows to extend the implications of stability to the down quark sector. The above considerations would benefit from an experimental determination of the PMNS ratio |U 32 /U 31|, i.e. of the Dirac phase δ.

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