6–11 Dec 2010
CNR headquarter
Europe/Rome timezone

A model for neutrino masses and mixing based on the non-abelian discrete symmetry A4

6 Dec 2010, 17:00
25m
Aula Convegni, Ground floor (CNR headquarter)

Aula Convegni, Ground floor

CNR headquarter

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 00185 Roma

Speaker

Dr Davide Meloni (Wuerzburg University)

Description

In this talk I will present a see-saw A4 model for Tri-Bimaximal mixing which is based on a very economical flavour symmetry and field content and still possesses all the good features of A4 models. In particular the charged lepton mass hierarchies are determined by the A4 x Z4 flavour symmetry itself without invoking a Froggatt-Nielsen U(1) symmetry. Tri-Bimaximal mixing is exact in leading order while all the mixing angles receive corrections of the same order in next-to-the-leading approximation. As a consequence the predicted value of the angle theta_13 is within the sensitivity of the experiments which will take data in the near future. The light neutrino spectrum with its phenomenological implications, also including leptoproduction, will be also discussed.

Primary author

Dr Davide Meloni (Wuerzburg University)

Presentation materials