Neutrino Masses and Mixings in a Universal Seesaw Mass Matrix Model.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 9 7 0 7 5 0 5 v 1 2 9 J u l 1 9 9 7 University of Shizuoka US-97-05 July 1997 Neutrino Masses and Mixings in a Universal Seesaw Mass Matrix Model Yoshio Koide? Department of Physics, University of Shizuoka 395 Yada, Shizuoka 422, Japan Abstract Neutrino masses and mixings are investigated on the basis of a universal seesaw mass matrix model, in which quark (except for top) and charged lepton mass matrices Mf and neutrino mass matrix Mν are given by Mf ? mLM?1F mR and Mν ? mLM?1F mTL (F = N), re- spectively. For a simple model which can successfully describe quark masses and mixings, we find that the observed neutrino data (except for the solar neutrino data) are favor to the intermediate mass scales O(mR) = 10 11 GeV andO(MF ) = 10 13 GeV together withO(mL) = 10 2 GeV. In spite of the largesse of O(mR), the observed top quark mass can be consistently understood from the would-be seesaw mass matrix with these mass scales. PACS numbers: 14.60.Pq, 12.15.Ff, 12.60.-i, 96.40.Tv ? E-mail: koide@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp 1 1. Introduction One of the most exciting problem in the quark and lepton physics is to give a natural understanding of the observed hierarchical mass spectra of quarks and leptons in relation to the electroweak scale ΛW . In the conventional models, the fundamental fermions acquire their masses through the symmetry breaking of the electroweak symmetry at the energy scale μ = 〈φ0L〉 ≡ ΛW = 174 GeV. However, the observed mass values except for the top quark mass mt are considerably small compared with ΛW . Especially, the neutrino masses are invisibly small (or exactly zero). In relation to this problem, we know an interesting mechanism, the so-called “seesaw” mechanism. The mechanism [1] was first proposed in order to answer the question why neutrino masses are so invisibly small: Mν ? ?mM?1mT , where m is a Dirac mass matrix with the order of the conventional quark and charged lepton masses and M is a Majorana mass matrix of the