Seesaw Mechanism with Occam's Razor

TL;DR

This paper explores a minimalistic seesaw model with two right-handed neutrinos, finding it incompatible with normal hierarchy but consistent with inverted hierarchy, predicting measurable CP phases and neutrinoless double beta decay signals.

Contribution

It demonstrates that a minimal seesaw model with two right-handed neutrinos and texture zeros supports inverted hierarchy and predicts observable CP violation and decay signals.

Findings

Incompatible with normal hierarchy

Compatible with inverted hierarchy

Predicts measurable CP phase and decay signals

Abstract

We discuss the seesaw mechanism which includes the minimum number of parameters for successful leptogenesis and three neutrino oscillations in the spirit of Occam's razor. We show that models with two right-handed neutrinos with two texture zeros supported by Occam's razor cannot fit the observed neutrino parameters consistently for the normal light neutrino mass hierarchy. For the inverted light neutrino mass hierarchy, on the other hand, we find that the models can fit the observed neutrino parameters consistently. Besides, we show that the model predicts the maximal Dirac CP-phase of the neutrino mixing matrix in the measurable range in the foreseeable future for the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy. We also show that the predicted effective Majorana neutrino mass responsible for the neutrinoless double beta decay is around 50 meV which is also within reach of future experiments.