Physics Letters B 759 (2016) 206–213
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Maximal zero textures in Linear and Inverse seesaw
Roopam Sinha, Rome Samanta, Ambar Ghosal
∗
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
30 March 2016
Accepted
24 May 2016
Available
online 27 May 2016
Editor:
J. Hisano
We investigate Linear and Inverse seesaw mechanisms with maximal zero textures of the constituent
matrices subjected to the assumption of non-zero eigenvalues for the neutrino mass matrix m
ν
and
charged lepton mass matrix m
e
. If we restrict to the minimally parametrized non-singular ‘m
e
’ (i.e.,
with maximum number of zeros) it gives rise to only 6 possible textures of m
e
. Non-zero determinant
of m
ν
dictates six possible textures of the constituent matrices. We ask in this minimalistic approach,
what phenomenologically allowed maximum zero textures are possible. It turns out that Inverse seesaw
leads to 7 allowed two-zero textures while the Linear seesaw leads to only one. In Inverse seesaw, we
show that 2 is the maximum number of independent zeros that can be inserted into μ
S
to obtain
all 7 viable two-zero textures of m
ν
. On the other hand, in Linear seesaw mechanism, the minimal
scheme allows maximum 5 zeros to be accommodated in ‘m’ so as to obtain viable effective neutrino
mass matrices (m
ν
). Interestingly, we find that our minimalistic approach in Inverse seesaw leads to a
realization of all the phenomenologically allowed two-zero textures whereas in Linear seesaw only one
such texture is viable. Next, our numerical analysis shows that none of the two-zero textures give rise
to enough CP violation or significant δ
CP
. Therefore, if δ
CP
= π/2is established, our minimalistic scheme
may still be viable provided we allow larger number of parameters in ‘m
e
’.
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1. Introduction
In Type-I seesaw mechanism the lightness of the observed neu-
trinos
is attributed to a seesaw scale around the GUT scale incor-
porated
in the theory. In this mechanism, right-handed neutrinos
(ν
R
) incorporated in the seesaw scale are usually identified with
the mass of the ν
R
: (M
ν
R
) lightest of which is constrained from
leptogenesis as M
lightest
≥ 10
8
GeV [1,2]. Probing the new physics
at such a high scale is far beyond the reach of ongoing collider ex-
periments.
Moreover, apart from experimental accessibility, a the-
oretical
analysis based on naturalness for a hierarchical ν
R
masses
(M
R
3
> M
R
2
> M
R
1
) put constraints on them as [3]:
M
R
1
≤ 4 × 10
7
GeV, M
R
2
≤ 7 × 10
7
GeV,
M
R
3
≤ 3 × 10
7
GeV(
0.05 eV
m
min
)
1
3
(1.1)
where m
min
is the mass of the lightest neutrino. On the other
hand, a seesaw scale in the TeV range can be realized in some
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Corresponding author.
E-mail
addresses: roopam.sinha@saha.ac.in (R. Sinha), rome.samanta@saha.ac.in
(R. Samanta),
ambar.ghosal@saha.ac.in (A. Ghosal).
other variants, such as Inverse seesaw, Linear seesaw etc. by pay-
ing
the price in terms of addition of extra singlet neutral fermions
into these mechanisms which can explain the smallness of neu-
trino
mass by a small lepton-number breaking mass matrix. The
ingredients of these two models incorporate, in addition to the
Standard Model singlet right-handed neutrinos {ν
αR
}, a set of sin-
glet
fermions {S
β R
}, where α, β (= 1, 2, 3) are the flavour indices.
The Yukawa sector of such low energy seesaw mechanism is de-
scribed
by the Lagrangian [4–16]
− L
mass
= ν
αL
m
αβ
D
ν
β R
+ M
αβ
R
(ν
αR
)
c
ν
β R
+ M
αβ
L
ν
αL
(ν
β L
)
c
+ μ
αβ
S
(S
αR
)
c
S
β R
+ ν
αL
M
αβ
S
β R
+ m
αβ
(ν
αR
)
c
S
β R
+ h.c. (1.2)
=
ν
αL
(ν
β R
)
c
(S
β R
)
c
⎛
⎝
M
L
m
D
M
m
T
D
M
R
m
M
T
m μ
S
⎞
⎠
⎛
⎝
(
ν
β L
)
c
ν
β R
S
β R
⎞
⎠
+
h.c.
(1.3)
where m
D
, M, m (since it is due to combination of two differ-
ent
fields) are the Dirac type and the rest are the Majorana type
mass matrices. Usually the Linear seesaw mechanism is facilitated
with the exclusion of all other lepton number violating mass terms
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