Spontaneous μ-τ Reflection Symmetry Breaking in Neutrino Phenomenology

Autor: Guo-Yuan Huang, Zhi-Zhong Xing, Jing-Yu Zhu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Universe, Vol 4, Iss 12, p 141 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2218-1997
DOI: 10.3390/universe4120141
Popis: The latest global analysis of neutrino oscillation data indicates that the normal neutrino mass ordering is favored over the inverted one at the 3 σ level. The best-fit values of the largest neutrino mixing angle θ 23 and the Dirac CP-violating phase δ are located in the higher octant and the third quadrant, respectively. We show that these experimental trends can be naturally explained by the μ - τ reflection symmetry breaking, triggered by the one-loop renormalization-group equations (RGEs) running from a superhigh energy scale down to the electroweak scale in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). The complete parameter space is numerically explored for both the Majorana and Dirac cases, by allowing the smallest neutrino mass m 1 and the MSSM parameter tan β to vary within their reasonable ranges.
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