
PREPRINT - OCTOBER 27, 2022
All data analyzed by the experiments mentioned and others can be described consistently by means of two
non-equivalent arrangements for mass eigenvalues [8]:
Normal Ordering: m1< m2< m3,(∆m2
32 '∆m2
31 >0),(3)
Inverted Ordering: m3< m1< m2,(∆m2
32 '∆m2
31 <0),(4)
where the squared-mass differences are
∆m2
ij =m2
i−m2
j(i, j = 1,2,3)
. From the latest global analysis
reported by Esteban et al. [
9
,
10
], experimental values of squared-mass differences are listed in Table 1.
Esteban et al. also determined upper and lower limits for each component of the PMNS matrix
|U|SK,3σ
PMNS =
0.801 →0.845 0.513 →0.579 0.143 →0.156
0.244 →0.499 0.505 →0.693 0.631 →0.768
0.272 →0.518 0.471 →0.669 0.623 →0.761
.(5)
Normal Ordering (NO) Inverted Ordering (IO)
∆m2
21
10−5eV26.82 →8.04 6.82 →8.04
∆m2
3l
10−3eV22.430 →2.593 −2.574 → −2.410
Table 1: Squared-mass differences at
3σ
reported by Esteban et al., using Super Kamiokande data.
l= 1
for
NO and l= 2 for IO.
Seeing this, what theoretical frameworks can we use for the explanation of the neutrinos small mass and
neutrino oscillation? The most studied method that answers our question is the seesaw mechanism, which
adds right-handed neutrinos to the SM to give mass to left-handed neutrinos. Since the new energy scale
associated with the new fields is high (
∼1014 −1016
GeV [
11
]), the seesaw mechanism can not be tested by
the experiments. Therefore in this model we use the inverse seesaw mechanism (ISS) which adds very light
right-handed Majorana neutrinos to the SM, such that in the basis
(νL, νC
R, NC
R)
the mass matrix has the form:
Mν=
0mT
ν0
mν0mT
N
0mNMN
,(6)
where the matrix block
mN
has component of the TeV scale order,
MN
is in KeV scale and
mν
is in the
electroweak scale. In this way the active neutrinos are obtained in sub-eV scale.
On the other hand, we can use the effective field theory as a theoretical framework to explain some
experimental results. In this scenario we propose a dimensional expansion in the Lagrangian of the theory
L=L0+L1
Λ+L2
Λ2+··· ,(7)
where conventional renormalizable interactions are considered,
L0
, and non-renormalizable interactions are
added,
Ln
(
n≥1
) [
12
], which are described by operators of
n+ 4
dimension suppressed by the new physics
energy scale
Λn
. These effective operators add high-energy effects that can be measured on a low-energy
scale.
In this work we use a next-to-minimal two Higgs double model (N2HDM) [
13
], which adds elementary
particles to the SM under a new symmetry
U(1)X
. This symmetry is one of the most studied of the SM, as can
be seen in the reference [14].
The paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we introduce the extension
U(1)X
to the SM, its
particle content with their respective charge
X
and hypercharge
Y
values, which lead to zero the anomaly
equations. In section
3
we show how mass structures in the leptonic sector are predicted by the model. The
mass of electron, which is massless at tree-level, is generated by effective operators of dimension
n= 7
by
introducing a Lambda scale, and the mass matrix of the active neutrinos is determined by the inverse seesaw
mechanism. In section
4
, we present the parameter space of the model and the numerical formalism. The
free parameters are fitted with the neutrino oscillation data available in NuFIT [
10
]. Results are showed and
analyzed in the section 5.
2