2010Physics Letters BOpen access

Non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix in the TeV-scale type-I seesaw model

Tommy Ohlsson, Christoph Popa, He Zhang

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The non-unitarity effects in leptonic flavor mixing are regarded as one of the generic features of the type-I seesaw model. Therefore, we explore these effects in the TeV-scale type-I seesaw model, and show that there exist non-trivial correlations among the non-unitarity parameters, stemming from the typical flavor structure of the low-scale seesaw model. In general, it follows from analytical discussions and numerical results that all the six non-unitarity parameters are related to three model parameters, while the widely studied parameters η e τ and η μ τ cannot be phenomenologically significant simultaneously.

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The non-unitarity effects in leptonic flavor mixing are regarded as one of the generic features of the type-I seesaw model. Therefore, we explore these effects in the TeV-scale type-I seesaw model, and show that there exist non-trivial correlations among the non-unitarity parameters, stemming from the typical flavor structure of the low-scale seesaw model. In general, it follows from analytical discussions and numerical results that all the six non-unitarity parameters are related to three model parameters, while the widely studied parameters η e τ and η μ τ cannot be phenomenologically significant simultaneously.

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The non-unitarity effects in leptonic flavor mixing are regarded as one of the generic features of the type-I seesaw model. Therefore, we explore these effects in the TeV-scale type-I seesaw model, and show that there exist non-trivial correlations among the non-unitarity parameters, stemming from the typical flavor structure of the low-scale seesaw model. In general, it follows from analytical discussions and numerical results that all the six non-unitarity parameters are related to three model parameters, while the widely studied parameters η e τ and η μ τ cannot be phenomenologically significant simultaneously.

Key concepts: Seesaw molecular geometry, Unitarity, Particle physics, Physics, Mixing (physics), Scale (ratio), Type (biology), Neutrino

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