Emergent large flavor mixing from canonical and inverse seesaws?
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| author | Xing, Zhi-zhong |
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| contents | While the canonical seesaw mechanism provides a most natural qualitative interpretation of tiny masses for the three active neutrinos, it offers no explanation for their large flavor mixing effects. The latter can be regarded as an emergent consequence of this mechanism, in which case we are left with an intriguing cross seesaw framework in the mass basis of all the six Majorana neutrinos. To lower the mass scales of heavy neutrinos, one is motivated to invoke the inverse seesaw mechanism but has to pay the price for a fine-tuned cancellation between its two sets of new degrees of freedom, in which case the largeness of active flavor mixing is an emergent phenomenon as well. A comparison between the approximate seesaw relations in the flavor basis and those exact ones in the mass basis is also made. |
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| spellingShingle | Emergent large flavor mixing from canonical and inverse seesaws? Xing, Zhi-zhong High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory While the canonical seesaw mechanism provides a most natural qualitative interpretation of tiny masses for the three active neutrinos, it offers no explanation for their large flavor mixing effects. The latter can be regarded as an emergent consequence of this mechanism, in which case we are left with an intriguing cross seesaw framework in the mass basis of all the six Majorana neutrinos. To lower the mass scales of heavy neutrinos, one is motivated to invoke the inverse seesaw mechanism but has to pay the price for a fine-tuned cancellation between its two sets of new degrees of freedom, in which case the largeness of active flavor mixing is an emergent phenomenon as well. A comparison between the approximate seesaw relations in the flavor basis and those exact ones in the mass basis is also made. |
| title | Emergent large flavor mixing from canonical and inverse seesaws? |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09286 |