Seesaw model with softly broken L_e - L_μ- L_τ

Abstract

We enlarge the lepton sector of the Standard Model by adding to it two right-handed neutrino singlets, and propose a model based on the seesaw mechanism and on the lepton number $\bar{L}=L_e-L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }$. The model is innovative from the theoretical point of view in that the $\bar{L}$-invariant mass term of the right-handed neutrinos is associated with the large mass scale responsible for the seesaw mechanism, whereas $\bar{L}$ is softly broken at a smaller scale by the remaining Majorana mass terms of the right-handed neutrinos. While being very economical, the model has predictive power: one neutrino is massless ($m_3=0$), the lepton mixing matrix $U$ features $U_{e3}=0$, and the solar-neutrino oscillations have maximal amplitude.

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