The minimal seesaw model with a modular S 4 symmetry

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2020; no. 5; pp. 1 - 38
• Main Authors: Xin Wang, Shun Zhou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 01.05.2020
• Subjects: CP violation; Discrete Symmetries; Neutrino Physics
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2020)017

Abstract In this paper, we incorporate the modular S 4 flavor symmetry into the supersymmetric version of the minimal type-I seesaw model, in which only two right-handed neutrino singlets are introduced to account for tiny Majorana neutrino masses, and explore its implications for the lepton mass spectra, flavor mixing and CP violation. The basic idea is to assign two right-handed neutrino singlets into the unique two-dimensional irreducible representation of the modular S 4 symmetry group. Moreover, we show that the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our Universe can be successfully explained via the resonant leptogenesis mechanism working at a relatively-low seesaw scale ΛSS ≈ 107 GeV, with which the potential problem of the gravitino overproduction can be avoided. In this connection, we emphasize that the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry may lead to a stringent constraint on the parameter space and testable predictions for low-energy observables.