Deviations from tribimaximal neutrino mixing in the type-II seesaw model and leptogenesis
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542 (Singapore)
- Sektion Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, 80333 Munich (Germany)
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China)
Current experimental data allow the zero value for one neutrino mass, either m{sub 1}=0 or m{sub 3}=0. This observation implies that a realistic neutrino mass texture can be established by starting from the limit (a) m{sub 1}=m{sub 2}=0 and m{sub 3}{ne}0 or (b) m{sub 1}=m{sub 2}{ne}0 and m{sub 3}=0. In both cases, we may introduce a particular perturbation which ensures the resultant neutrino mixing matrix to be the tribimaximal mixing pattern or its viable variations with all entries being formed from small integers and their square roots. We find that it is natural to incorporate this kind of neutrino mass matrix in the minimal type-II seesaw model with only one heavy right-handed Majorana neutrino N in addition to the SU(2){sub L} Higgs triplet {delta}{sub L}. We show that it is possible to account for the cosmological baryon number asymmetry in the m{sub 3}=0 case via thermal leptogenesis, in which the one-loop vertex correction to N decays is mediated by {delta}{sub L} and the CP-violating asymmetry of N decays is attributed to the electron flavor.
- OSTI ID:
- 21032322
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.073009; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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