Published February 7, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Mixing patterns from the groups Σ(nφ)

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'G Galilei', Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua (Italy)
  • 2. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Description

We survey the mixing patterns which can be derived from the discrete groups Σ(36 × 3), Σ(72 × 3), Σ(216 × 3) and Σ(360 × 3), if these are broken to Abelian subgroups Ge and Gν in the charged lepton and neutrino sector, respectively. Since only Σ(360 × 3) possesses Klein subgroups, only this group allows neutrinos to be Majorana particles. We find a few patterns that can agree well with the experimental data on lepton mixing in scenarios with small corrections and that predict the reactor mixing angle θ13 to be 0.1 ≲ θ13 ≲ 0.2. All these patterns lead to a trivial Dirac phase. Patterns which instead reveal CP violation tend to accommodate the data not well. We also comment on the outer automorphisms of the discussed groups, since they can be useful for relating inequivalent representations of these groups. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/5/055201

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
47
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
[28 p.]
ISSN
1751-8121

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
46038146
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CORRECTIONS; CP INVARIANCE; NEUTRINOS; WEINBERG ANGLE
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES