Lepton family symmetries for neutrino masses and mixing

Abstract

I review some of the recent progress (up to December 2005) in applying non-Abelian discrete symmetries to the family structure of leptons, with particular emphasis on the tribimaximal mixing ansatz of Harrison, Perkins, and Scott.

arXiv comment14 pages, no figure, talk at WHEPP-9

References in corpus (10)

• Tri-Bimaximal Mixing and the Neutrino Oscillation Data
• Underlying A_4 Symmetry for the Neutrino Mass Matrix and the Quark Mixing Matrix
• Tri-Bimaximal Neutrino Mixing, A4 and the Modular Symmetry
• Tri-Bimaximal Neutrino Mixing from Discrete Symmetry in Extra Dimensions
• Obtaining the Neutrino Mixing Matrix with the Tetrahedral Group
• Neutrino Mass Matrix from S_4 Symmetry
• Tetrahedral Family Symmetry and the Neutrino Mixing Matrix
• Hybrid Seesaw Neutrino Masses with A_4 Family Symmetry
• A model realizing the Harrison-Perkins-Scott lepton mixing matrix
• Hiding the Existence of a Family Symmetry in the Standard Model

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• The Horizontal Symmetry for Neutrino Mixing
• Neutrino mixing matrix in the 3-3-1 model with heavy leptons and $A_4$ symmetry
• Intermediate left-right gauge symmetry, unification of couplings and fermion masses in SUSY $SO(10)\times S_4$
• Inverse Seesaw Mechanism in Nonsupersymmetric SO(10), Proton Lifetime, Nonunitarity Effects, and a Low-mass Z' Boson