Vanishing minors in the neutrino mass matrix from abelian gauge symmetries

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Araki, Takeshi ^a   Heeck, Julian ^b,c   Kubo, Jisuke ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; Neutrino physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864445839     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)083     Document Type: Article

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