Fits to non-supersymmetric SO(10) models with type I and II seesaw mechanisms using renormalization group evolution

• Main Authors: Tommy Ohlsson, Marcus Pernow
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
• Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Subjects: Beyond Standard Model; GUT; Neutrino Physics
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)085

Abstract We consider numerical fits to non-supersymmetric SO(10)-based models in which neutrino mass is generated by the type-I or type-II seesaw mechanism or a combination of both. The fits are performed with a sophisticated top-down procedure, taking into account the renormalization group equations of the gauge and Yukawa couplings, integrating out relevant degrees of freedom at their corresponding mass scales, and using recent data for the Standard Model observables. We find acceptable fits for normal neutrino mass ordering only and with neutrino mass generated by either type-I seesaw only or a combination of types I and II seesaw in which type-I seesaw is dominant. Furthermore, we find predictions from the best fit regarding the small neutrino masses, the effective neutrinoless double beta decay mass, and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Finally, we show that the fits are rather insensitive to the chosen value of the unification scale.