A class of Lepton Mass

Matrices with Four Texture

Zeros
S. Dev1 , Sanjeev Kumar2 ,
Surender Verma1 , Shivani Gupta1
1
Department of Physics
Himachal Pradesh University
Shimla, INDIA.

2
School of Physics and Materiel Science,
Thapar University, Patiala
 Attempts are made to understand the pattern of
quark / lepton masses and mixings by introducing
Abelian or non - Abelian flavor symmetries which,
naturally, lead to texture zeros in the mass matrices.

 In the present work we examine the phenomenological

implications of a class of lepton mass matrices with
parallel texture structure in the charged lepton and
neutrino mass matrices and obtain phenomenologically
interesting constraints on charged lepton and
neutrino mass matrix parameters.
 We take a special case of texture zero
Ansatze in which the charged lepton mass and
Majorana neutrino mass matrix have the same
texture zero structure.

Koichi Matsuda, Hiroyuki Nishiura [Phys. Rev. D

74, (2006) 033014] have analyzed this Ansatze
under the assumption of factorizable phases in
neutrino mass matrix which is not always possible for
a general complex symmetric matrix without
unnatural fine tuning of the phases.
The charged lepton mass matrix and Majorana
neutrino mass matrix have the same texture zero
structure with zero entries at (1,1) and (1,3)
places and are given by

The elements of the

neutrino mass matrix
are all complex

Cl and Dl are real

The diagonalization scheme is explained below
If Dl is known the
diagonalizing matrix
Ol and the charged
lepton mass matrix
Ml are fully
determined since the
charged lepton
masses are known.
Hence, Mν can be calculated as a function of
φ1, φ2 and Dl using the equation:

Equating the (1,1) and (1.3) elements to zero,

we get the texture zero constraints.
The two zero textures in neutrino mass matrix
yield two complex equations viz.
The two complex equations give four
constraining equations:
 Two distinct solutions: low Dl and high Dl

A natural lower
bound on θ13
the effective Majorana mass
 The results
An interesting feature of this analysis is the rather strong
constraints obtained on θ13 and the emergence of
two classes of solutions corresponding to ’low Dl’ and ’high Dl’