6–13 Jul 2022
Bologna, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

CP violation and flavor invariants in the seesaw effective field theory

8 Jul 2022, 19:05
1h 25m
Bologna, Italy

Bologna, Italy

Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi
Poster Neutrino Physics Poster Session

Speaker

Bingrong Yu

Description

In this talk, we systematically study the algebraic structure of the ring of the flavor invariants and the sources of CP violation in the seesaw effective field theory (SEFT), which includes the dimension-five Weinberg operator and one dimension-six operator at the tree-level matching. For the first time, we calculate the Hilbert series and explicitly construct all the primary flavor invariants in the SEFT. We show that all the physical parameters can be extracted using the primary invariants and any CP-violating observable can be expressed as the linear combination of CP-odd flavor invariants. The calculation of the Hilbert series shows that there is an equal number of primary flavor invariants in the SEFT and in the full seesaw model, which reveals the intimate connection between the flavor space of the SEFT and that of its ultraviolet theory. A proper matching procedure of the flavor invariants is accomplished between the SEFT and the full seesaw model, through which one can establish a direct link between the CP asymmetries in leptogenesis and those in low-energy neutrino oscillations.

In-person participation No

Primary authors

Bingrong Yu Shun Zhou (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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