Nuclear Physics B (Apr 2020)

Littlest inverse seesaw model

  • A.E. Cárcamo Hernández,
  • S.F. King

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 953

Abstract

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We propose a minimal predictive inverse seesaw model based on two right-handed neutrinos and two additional singlets, leading to the same low energy neutrino mass matrix as in the Littlest Seesaw (LS) (type I) model. In order to implement such a Littlest Inverse Seesaw (LIS) model, we have used an S4 family symmetry, together with other various symmetries, flavons and driving fields. The resulting LIS model leads to an excellent fit to the low energy neutrino parameters, including the prediction of a normal neutrino mass ordering, exactly as in the usual LS model. However, unlike the LS model, the LIS model allows charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) processes and lepton conversion in nuclei within reach of the forthcoming experiments.