Hunting for Neutrino Texture Zeros with Muon and Tau Flavor Violation
Lorenzo Calibbi, Xiyuan Gao, Man Yuan

TL;DR
This paper investigates two-zero textures in the neutrino mass matrix within the type II seesaw model, linking flavor violation processes to high-scale new physics and proposing experimental tests at colliders and flavor experiments.
Contribution
It provides a detailed analysis of flavor violation patterns arising from two-zero neutrino textures, highlighting their testability and implications for high-scale physics.
Findings
Distinctive CLFV patterns can discriminate between textures.
Certain textures suppress $oldsymbol{ ext{mu} o e}$ transitions.
The effective theory cutoff can reach 5-6 TeV.
Abstract
We revisit the minimal type II seesaw mechanism generating the Majorana neutrino mass matrix , under the assumption that two entries of vanish. Such flavor structures are known as two-zero textures. Processes with charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV), absent in the Standard Model (SM), can have sizable rates in this framework and are directly linked to the flavor structure of . For each allowed two-zero texture, we quantify the predicted correlations among various CLFV observables using current neutrino oscillation data and show that they lead to distinctive patterns of CLFV processes that could be discriminated between at running and upcoming experiments. In addition, together with information from colliders, the sensitivity of these correlations to renormalization group (RG) effects could shed light on the potentially ultra-high scale where new dynamics…
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