Lepton Flavor Mixing and CP Violation in the Minimal Type-(I+II) Seesaw Model with a Modular $A_4$ Symmetry

TL;DR

This paper explores a supersymmetric minimal type-(I+II) seesaw model with modular $A_4$ symmetry, predicting neutrino masses, mixing, and CP violation, and suggests testable implications for future experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a novel minimal seesaw model with modular $A_4$ symmetry, combining right-handed neutrinos and Higgs triplets, and analyzes its implications for neutrino properties.

Findings

Neutrino mass matrix can have approximate $- au$ reflection symmetry.

Model predicts relatively large neutrino masses.

Contributions from right-handed neutrino and Higgs triplet are comparable.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the implications of the modular $A^{}_4$ flavor symmetry in constructing a supersymmetric minimal type-(I+II) seesaw model, in which only one right-handed neutrino and two Higgs triplets are introduced to account for the tiny neutrino masses, flavor mixing and CP violation. The right-handed neutrino as well as the Higgs triplets in this model are assigned into the trivial one-dimensional irreducible representation of the modular group $A^{}_{4}$. We show that the individual contributions to the neutrino masses from the right-handed neutrino and the Higgs triplet are comparable. We also find that the neutrino mass matrix can possess an approximate $\mu-\tau$ reflection symmetry for some specific values of free model parameters. Moreover, our model predicts relatively large masses of three light neutrinos, thus can be easily tested in future neutrino experiments.