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Neutrino mixing angles from texture zeros of the lepton mass matrices
Taking into account the latest neutrino oscillation data, we study texture zeros of the lepton mass matrices. Assuming the Dirac neutrino mass matrix MD, the charged-lepton mass matrix Ml and the mass matrix of heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos MR to have three texture zeros, we show that the observed neutrino mixing angles can naturally be obtained. The phenomenological implications for the neutrino mass spectrum, the CP-violating phases, the tritium beta decay and the neutrinoless double-beta decay are explored.
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The Minimal Seesaw Model at the TeV Scale
We point out that the minimal seesaw model can provide a natural framework to accommodate tiny neutrino masses, while its experimental testability and notable predictiveness are still maintained. T ...
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Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology
Neutrinos: Past, Present and Future.- Neutrinos within the Standard Model.- Neutrinos beyond the Standard Model.- Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations.- Neutrinos from Stars.- Neutrinos from Supernovae.- Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Neutrinos.- Neutrinos and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.- Neutrinos and Cosmological Perburbations.- Neutrinos and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry.- Other Topics of Neutrino Astrophysics.
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The Minimal Type-II Seesaw Model and Flavor-dependent Leptogenesis
In this talk, we first give a brief review of the so-called minimal seesaw models and then concentrate on the minimal type-I seesaw model with two almost degenerate right-handed Majorana neutrinos of $\mathcal{O}(1 \,{\rm TeV})$. A specific texture of the neutrino Yukawa coupling matrix is proposed to achieve the nearly tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing pattern. This ansatz predicts (1) θ23 = π/4, |δ| = π/2 and sin2θ12 = (1 − 2tan2θ13)/3 in the m1 = 0 case; and (2) θ23 = π/4 and θ13 = 8 = 0 in the m3 = 0 case. In both cases, the cosmological baryon number asymmetry can be explained via the resonant leptogenesis mechanism. Finally, we demonstrate the significance of flavor-dependent effects in our leptogenesis scenario.
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Minimal type II seesaw model
We propose a minimal type II seesaw model by introducing only one right-handed neutrino besides the SU(2){sub L} triplet Higgs to the standard model. In the usual type II seesaw models with several right-handed neutrinos, the contributions of the right-handed neutrinos and the triplet Higgs to the CP asymmetry, which stems from the decay of the lightest right-handed neutrino, are proportional to their respective contributions to the light neutrino mass matrix. However, in our minimal type II seesaw model, this CP asymmetry is just given by the one-loop vertex correction involving the triplet Higgs, even though the contribution of the triplet Higgs does not dominate the light neutrino masses. For illustration, the Fritzsch-type lepton mass matrices are considered.
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Why is the 3 x 3 neutrino mixing matrix almost unitary in realistic seesaw models
A simple extension of the standard model is to introduce n heavy right-handed Majorana, neutrinos and preserve its SU(2)(L) X U(1)(Y) gauge symmetry. Diagonalizing the (3 + n) x (3 + n) neutrino mass matrix, we obtain an exact analytical expression for the effective mass matrix of nu(e), nu(mu) and nu(tau). It turns out that the 3 x 3 neutrino mixing matrix V, which appears in the leptonic charged-current weak interactions, must not be exactly unitary. The unitarity violation of V is negligibly tiny, however, if the canonical seesaw mechanism works to reproduce the correct mass scale of light Majorana neutrinos. A similar conclusion can be drawn in the. realistic Type-II seesaw models.
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The relativistic continuum Hartree–Bogoliubov description of charge-changing cross section for C, N, O and F isotopes
Abstract The ground state properties including radii, density distribution and one neutron separation energy for C, N, O and F isotopes up to the neutron drip line are systematically studied by the self-consistent microscopic Relativistic Continuum Hartree–Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory. With the proton density distribution thus obtained, the charge-changing cross sections for C, N, O and F isotopes are calculated using the Glauber model. Good agreement with the data has been achieved. The charge changing cross sections change only slightly with the neutron number except for proton-rich nuclei. Similar trends of variations of proton radii and of charge changing cross sections for each isotope chain is observed which implies that the proton density plays important role in determining the charge-changing cross sections.
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Splitting of the pi-rho spectrum in a renormalized light-cone QCD-inspired model
We show that the splitting between the light pseudoscalar and vector meson states is due to the strong short-range attraction in the ${}^{1}{S}_{0}$ sector which makes the pion and the kaon light particles. We use a light-cone QCD-inspired model of the mass squared operator with harmonic confinement and a Dirac-delta interaction. We apply a renormalization method to define the model, in which the pseudoscalar ground state mass fixes the renormalized strength of the Dirac-delta interaction.
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Goldstone's Theorem and Hamiltonian of Multi-galileon Modified Gravity
The Galileon model was recently proposed to locally describe a class of modified gravity theories, including the braneworld Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati model. We discuss spontaneous symmetry breaking of the self-accelerating branch in a multi-Galileon theory with internal global symmetries. We show that a modified version of Goldstone's theorem is applicable to the symmetry breaking pattern and discuss its implications. We also derive the Hamiltonian of a general multi-Galileon theory and discuss its implications.
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Retrieving the missed particle-antiparticle degrees of freedom of Dirac particles
The missed particle-antiparticle degrees of freedom are retrieved and the corresponding particle-antiparticle intrinsic space are introduced to study the dynamical symmetry of the Dirac particle. As a result, the particle-antiparticle quantum number appears naturally and the Dirac particle has five quantum numbers instead of four. An anti-symmetry (different from the conventional symmetry) of the Dirac Hamiltonian and a dual symmetry of its eigenfunctions are explored. The $\hat{\kappa}$ operator of the Dirac equation in central potentials is found to be the analog of the helicity operator of the free particle--the alignment of the spin along the angular momentum.
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Mass-varying massive gravity
It has recently been shown that the graviton can consistently gain a constant mass without introducing the Boulware-Deser ghost. We propose a gravity model where the graviton mass is set by a scalar field and prove that this model is free of the Boulware-Deser ghost by analyzing its constraint system and showing that two constraints arise. We also initiate the study of the model's cosmic background evolution and tentatively discuss possible cosmological implications of this model. In particular, we consider a simple scenario where the scalar field setting the graviton mass is identified with the inflaton and the graviton mass evolves from a high to a low energy scale, giving rise to the current cosmic acceleration.