Correlation of normal neutrino mass ordering with upper octant of ${\theta }_{23}^{}$ and third quadrant of $\delta$ via RGE-induced $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetry breaking

Abstract

The recent global analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillation data indicates that the {\it normal} neutrino mass ordering is favored over the inverted one at the $3\sigma$ level, and the best-fit values of the largest neutrino mixing angle ${\theta }_{23}^{}$ and the Dirac CP-violating phase $\delta$ are located in the higher octant and the third quadrant, respectively. We show that all these important issues can be naturally explained by the $\mu$-$\tau$ reflection symmetry breaking of massive neutrinos from a superhigh energy scale down to the electroweak scale due to the one-loop renormalization-group equations (RGEs) in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). The complete parameter space is explored {\it for the first time} in both Majorana and Dirac cases, by allowing the smallest neutrino mass $m_1^{}$ and the MSSM parameter $\tan \beta$ to vary in their reasonable regions.

19 pages, 8 figures, references added, minor changes, version to be published in Chinese physics C

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