Partial Mass Degenerated Model and Spontaneous CP Violation in the Leptonic Sector

TL;DR

This paper proposes a flavor model based on a discrete symmetry that explains small neutrino mass differences, large mixing angles, and links the electron mass to CP violation effects, aligning with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a novel lepton flavor model using the $D_N$ group that accounts for neutrino oscillation data and CP violation without requiring hierarchical couplings.

Findings

Reproduces experimental neutrino mixing angles and mass differences.

Establishes a relation between electron mass and $ heta_{13}^{ m PMNS}$ via CP violation.

Achieves these results with minimal tuning of parameters.

Abstract

We have investigated a flavour model [1] which inspired by small squared-mass difference measured in solar neutrino oscillation experiments and observability in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. In our model, the $1^{\rm st.}$ and $2^{\rm nd.}$ generations of fermions have a common mass at the leading order. Such limit may be a good starting point from the points of view of understanding the mixing patterns and mass spectra. In this limit, the mass matrices are respected an $O (2)$ symmetry on flavor space of the first two generations. For simplicity, we propose a model for lepton sector based on the $D_N$ group which is a discrete subgroup of $O (2)$. We show that our model can reproduce the experimental data without hierarchical couplings except for $5 \mathchar`- 10%$ tuning partially for the large neutrino mixing. Further, we show a novel relation between the tiny electron mass and the relatively large $\theta_{13}^{\rm PMNS}$ via CP violation by the complex vacuum expectation values of the extra scalar fields.