Tri-bimaximal lepton mixing from symmetry only

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We construct a model for tri-bimaximal lepton mixing which employs only family symmetries and their soft breaking; neither vacuum alignment nor supersymmetry, extra dimensions, or non-renormalizable terms are used in our model. It is an extension of the Standard Model making use of the seesaw mechanism with five right-handed neutrino singlets. The scalar sector comprises four Higgs doublets and one complex gauge singlet. The horizontal symmetry of our model is based on the permutation group S_3 of the lepton families together with the three family lepton numbers--united this constitutes a symmetry group Delta(6\infty^2). The model makes no predictions for the neutrino masses.

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Softly broken lepton numbers and maximal neutrino mixing

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We consider lepton mixing in an extension of the Standard Model with three right-handed neutrino singlets. We require that the three lepton numbers L_e, L_\mu, and L_\tau be separately conserved in the Yukawa couplings, and we assume that they are softly broken only by the Majorana mass matrix M_R of the neutrino singlets. In this framework, where lepton-number breaking occurs at a scale much higher than the electroweak scale, deviations from family-lepton-number conservation are calculable and finite, and lepton mixing stems exclusively from M_R. We then show that a discrete symmetry exists such that, in the lepton mixing matrix U, maximal atmospheric neutrino mixing together with U_{e3}=0 can be obtained naturally. Alternatively, if one assumes that there are two different scales in M_R and that the lepton number \bar L = L_e - L_\mu - L_\tau is conserved in between them, then maximal solar neutrino mixing follows naturally. If both the discrete symmetry and intermediate \bar L conservation are introduced, bimaximal mixing is achieved.