Neutrino mass square ratio and neutrinoless double-beta decay in random neutrino mass matrices
- 1. Department of Physics, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka 558-8585 (Japan)
Description
We study neutrino mass anarchy in the Dirac neutrino, seesaw, and double-seesaw models. Assuming the anarchy hypothesis, the mass matrices are random and distributed in accordance with the Gaussian measure. We focus on the distributions of the mass square ratio of the light neutrinos and examine which of these models shows a peak in the probability distribution around the experimental value. We show that the peak position depends on the number of random matrix products. We find that the light neutrino mass hierarchy becomes larger as the number of random matrix products is increased and the seesaw model with the random Dirac and Majorana mass matrices is the most likely to realize the current experimental data. We also investigate the distributions of the effective Majorana mass for neutrinoless double-beta decay. We find that the effective Majorana mass is smaller than the experimental upper bound and tends to be smaller as the number of random matrix products increases because the light neutrino masses become more hierarchical. We argue that the tendency for lighter neutrino masses to become more hierarchical as the number of products in the random matrix increases can be understood from the probability distribution of singular values in random matrix theory.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptad010; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/records/75807Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1093/ptep/ptad010;
- arXiv
- arXiv:2206.09720;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2023
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- 10 p.
- ISSN
- 2050-3911
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 56002343
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BBGKY EQUATION; DIRAC EQUATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAUSS FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; MAJORANA FERMIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY; NEUTRINOS; QUANTUM FLAVORDYNAMICS; R MATRIX; STANDARD MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY; BETA-MINUS DECAY; CALCULATION METHODS; DECAY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRICES; NUCLEAR DECAY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan.
- Notes
- PUBLISHER-ID: ptad010; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:75807