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Sin Kyu Kang

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Correlation between lepton flavor violation and B_{(d,s)} - \bar{B}_{(d,s)} mixing in SUSY GUT

Motivated by the recent measurements of the B_s-\bar{B}_s mass difference from the D0 and CDF collaborations, we probe new physics effects in the B_q-\bar{B}_q mixing within the context of the supersymmetric grand unified model (SUSY GUT). We find that new physics effects in B_{s(d)}-\bar{B}_{s(d)} mixing lead to the correlated information in the branching fractions of the lepton flavor violating decays, which may serve as a test of the SUSY GUT. We also discuss the implication of such new physics effects on the quark-lepton complementarity in the neutrino mixings.

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$μ-τ$ Symmetry and Radiatively Generated Leptogenesis

We consider a $μ-τ$ symmetry in neutrino sectors realized at GUT scale in the context of a seesaw model. In our scenario, the exact $μ-τ$ symmetry realized in the basis where the charged lepton and heavy Majorana neutrino mass matrices are diagonal leads to vanishing lepton asymmetries. We find that, in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the seesaw model with large $\tanβ$, the renormalization group (RG) evolution from GUT scale to seesaw scale can induce a successful leptogenesis even without introducing any symmetry breaking terms by hand, whereas such RG effects lead to tiny deviations of $θ_{23}$ and $θ_{13}$ from $π/4$ and zero, respectively. It is shown that the right amount of the baryon asymmetry $η_B$ can be achieved via so-called resonant leptogenesis, which can be realized at rather low seesaw scale with large $\tanβ$ in our scenario so that the well-known gravitino problem is safely avoided.

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Extended double seesaw model for neutrino mass spectrum and low scale leptogenesis

We consider a variant of seesaw mechanism by introducing extra singlet neutrinos, with which we show how the low scale leptogenesis is realized without imposing the tiny mass splitting between two heavy Majorana neutrinos required in the resonant leptogenesis. Thus, we can avoid the so-called gravitino problem when our scenario is supersymmetrized. We show that an introduction of the new singlet fermion leads to a new contribution which can enhance the lepton asymmetry for certain range of parameter space. We also examine how both the light neutrino mass spectrum and relatively light sterile neutrinos of order a few 100 MeV can be achieved without being in conflict with the constraints on the mixing between the active and sterile neutrinos.

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Phased Breaking of mu-tau symmetry and Leptogenesis

Non-vanishing U_{e3} has been theoretically related to a certain flavor symmetry breaking in the neutrino sector. We propose a scenario to break the mu-tau symmetry so as to accommodate the non-vanishing U_{e3}. Our scenario is constructed in the context of a seesaw model, and the mu-tau symmetry breaking is achieved by introducing a CP phase in the Dirac Yukawa matrix. We also show how the deviation of theta_{23} from the maximal mixing and non-vanishing U_{e3} depend on the CP phase. Neutrino mixings and the neutrino mass-squared differences are discussed, and the amplitude in neutrinoless double beta decay m_{ee} are also predicted. We found that a tiny breaking of the mu-tau symmetry due to mass splitting between two degenerate heavy Majorana neutrinos on top of the Dirac CP phase can lead to successful leptogenesis. We examine how leptogenesis can be related with low energy neutrino measurement, and show that our predictions for U_{e3} and m_{ee} can be constrained by the current observation of baryon asymmetry.

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Possible Deviation from the Tri-bimaximal Neutrino Mixing in a Seesaw Model

We propose a simple but suggestive seesaw model with two phenomenological conjectures: three heavy (right-handed) Majorana neutrinos are degenerate in mass in the symmetry limit and three light Majorana neutrinos have the tri-bimaximal mixing pattern $V^{}_0$. We show that a small mass splitting between the first generation and the other two generations of heavy Majorana neutrinos is responsible for the deviation of the solar neutrino mixing angle $θ^{}_{12}$ from its initial value $35.3^\circ$ given by $V^{}_0$, and the slight breaking of the mass degeneracy between the second and third generations of heavy Majorana neutrinos results in a small mixing angle $θ^{}_{13}$ and a tiny departure of the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle $θ^{}_{23}$ from $45^\circ$. It turns out that a normal hierarchy of the light neutrino mass spectrum is favored in this seesaw scenario.

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Quark-Lepton Complementarity with Renormalization Effects through Threshold Corrections

The recent experimental measurements of the solar neutrino mixing angle $θ_{sol}$ and the Cabibbo mixing angle $θ_C$ reveal a surprising relation, $ θ_{sol}+θ_C \simeq \fracπ{4} $. We review that while this empirical relation has been interpreted as a support of the idea of grand unification, it may be merely accidental in the sense that reproducing the relation at a low energy in the framework of grand unification may depend strongly on the renormalization effects whose size can vary with the choice of parameter space. We note that the lepton mixing matrix derived from quark-lepton unification can lead to a shift of the complementarity relation at low energy. While the renormalization group effects generally lead to additive contribution on top of the shift, we show that the threshold corrections which may exist in some intermediate scale new physics such as supersymmetric standard model can diminish it, so we can achieve the complementarity relation at a low energy.

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Are deviation from bi-maximal mixing and none-zero U_{e3} related to non-degeneracy of heavy Majorana neutrinos?

We propose a scenario that the mass splitting between the first generation of the heavy Majorana neutrino and the other two generations of degenerate heavy neutrinos in the seesaw framework is responsible for the deviation of the solar mixing angle from the maximal mixing, while keeping the maximal mixing between the tau and muon neutrinos as it is. On top of the scenario, we show that the tiny breaking of the degeneracy of the two heavy Majorana neutrinos leads to the non-zero small mixing angle $U_{e3}$ in the PMNS matrix and the little deviation of the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle from the maximal mixing.

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Importance of Threshold Corrections in Quark-Lepton Complementarity

The recent experimental measurements of the solar neutrino mixing angle $θ_{sol}$ and the Cabibbo mixing angle $θ_C$ reveal a surprising relation, $ θ_{sol}+θ_C \simeq \fracπ{4}$. We note that the lepton mixing matrix derived from quark-lepton unification can lead to a shift of the complementarity relation at low energy. While the renormalization group effects generally lead to additive contribution on top of the shift, in this letter, we show that the threshold corrections which may exist in some intermediate scale new physics such as supersymmetric standard model can diminish it, so we can achieve the complementarity relation at a low energy. Finally, we discuss a possibility to achieve the complementarity relation at a high energy by taking particular form of non-symmetric form of down Yukawa matrix.

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Sneutrino Leptogenesis at the Electroweak Scale

We propose an alternative mechanism for leptogenesis at the electroweak scale, through the decays of a left-handed sneutrino. This scenario may be realized in supersymmetric models with non-zero Majorana masses for the neutrino superfield that lead to mixing and mass splitting between the left-handed sneutrino and the corresponding antisneutrino. Soft supersymmetry breaking provides new sources of CP violation in sneutrino-antisneutrino mixing that can generate a lepton asymmetry in decays of the left-handed sneutrino. We show how the three Sakharov conditions for generating the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe can be fulfilled in this restrictive framework.

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Lepton Flavor Violation as a Probe of Quark-Lepton Unification

The recent measurements of the solar neutrino mixing angle theta_{sol} and the Cabibbo mixing angle theta_C reveal a surprising relation, theta_{sol}+theta_C ~ pi/4. Interpreting this empirical relation as a support of the quark-lepton unification, we find that the PMNS mixing matrix can be decomposed into a CKM-like matrix and maximal mixing matrices, which can give profound implications on the quark-lepton unification. We explore a possibility to probe the implication of quark-lepton unification by considering the relative sizes of branching ratios for the lepton flavor violating radiative decay processes, l_i-->l_j gamma, in the context of the supersymmetric standard model with heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos.

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Minimal seesaw model with tri/bi-maximal mixing and leptogenesis

We examine minimal seesaw mechanism in which the masses of light neutrinos are described with tri/bi-maximal mixing in the basis where the charged-lepton Yukawa matrix and heavy Majorana neutrino mass matrix are diagonal. We search for all possible Dirac mass textures which contain at least one zero entry in $3 \times 2$ matrix and evaluate the corresponding lepton asymmetries. We present the baryon asymmetry in terms of a single low energy unknown, a Majorana CP phase to be clued from neutrinoless double beta decay.

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Neutrino Oscillations and Collider Test of the R-parity Violating Minimal Supergravity Model

We study the R-parity violating minimal supergravity models accounting for the observed neutrino masses and mixing, which can be tested in future collider experiments. The bi-large mixing can be explained by allowing five dominant tri-linear couplings $ λ'_{1,2,3}$ and $λ_{1,2}$. The desired ratio of the atmospheric and solar neutrino mass-squared differences can be obtained in a very limited parameter space where the tree-level contribution is tuned to be suppressed. In this allowed region, we quantify the correlation between the three neutrino mixing angles and the tri-linear R-parity violating couplings. Qualitatively, the relations $| λ'_1 | < | λ'_2| \sim | λ'_3|$, and $|λ_1| \sim |λ_2|$ are required by the large atmospheric neutrino mixing angle $θ_{23}$ and the small angle $θ_{13}$, and the large solar neutrino mixing angle $θ_{12}$, respectively. Such a prediction on the couplings can be tested in the next linear colliders by observing the branching ratios of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). For the stau or the neutralino LSP, the ratio $|λ_1|^2: |λ_2|^2: |λ_1|^2 + |λ_2|^2$ can be measured by establishing $Br(eν): Br(μν) : Br(τν)$ or $Br(νe^\pm τ^\mp ): Br(νμ^\pmτ^\mp) : Br(ντ^\pmτ^\mp)$, respectively. The information on the couplings $λ'_i$ can be drawn by measuring $Br(l_i t \bar{b}) \propto |λ'_i|^2$ if the neutralino LSP is heavier than the top quark.

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Implications of SNO and BOREXINO results on Nuetrino Oscillations and Majorana Magnetic Moments

Using the recent measurement of SNO salt phase experiment, we investigate how much the solar neutrino flux deficit observed at SNO could be due to $ν_e$ transition into antineutrino. Our analysis leads to rather optimistic conclusion that the SNO salt phase data may indicate the existence of Majorana magnetic moment. The prospect for the future BOREXINO experiment is also discussed.

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Neutrino Mass Matrix in the Minimal Supergravity Model: Bi-large Mixing with Trilinear R-parity Violation

We study the correlation between the neutrino oscillation and the production/decay of the lightest supersymmetric particle(LSP) in the context of the minimal supergravity model(mSUGRA) without R-parity. We show how the neutrino masses and mixing which are consistent with the recent neutrino data can be obtained in this model, and describe how to probe the model by observing the LSP decay at collider experiments. It is shown that the generic 1-loop contributions to neutrino masses are too small to account for the solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations and thus some fine cancellation in tree-level contribution is required to severely constrain the viable parameter space. In most parameter space of mSUGRA, the neutralino or the stau is LSP. Examining both cases, we find that there is a simple correlation between the neutrino mixing angles and the LSP branching ratios in the small $\tanβ$ region so that the model can be clearly tested in the future colliders. In the large $\tanβ$ region, such a correlation is obscured by the large tau Yukawa contribution which makes it nontrivial to test the model.

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A Detailed Analysis of One-loop Neutrino Masses from the Generic Supersymmetric Standard Model

In the generic supersymmetric standard model which had no global symmetry enforced by hand, lepton number violation is a natural consequence. Supersymmetry, hence, can be considered the source of experimentally demanded beyond standard model properties for the neutrinos. With an efficient formulation of the model, we perform a comprehensive detailed analysis of all one-loop contributions to neutrino masses.

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New Interpretation on the Solar Neutrino Flux with Flavor Mixing and Majorana Magnetic Moment

A simple and model-independent method is proposed to extract information on solar $ν_e$ transition into antineutrinos via the spin flavor precession (SFP) from the measurements of solar neutrino flux at SNO and Super-Kamiokande. Incorporating the KamLAND experimental results, we examine how large the suppression of the solar neutrino flux could be due to the SFP mechanism in the context of the hybrid scenario with two-flavor neutrino and antineutrino mixings.

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Probing the messenger of supersymmetry breaking by the muon anomalous magnetic moment

Motivated by the recently measured muon's anomalous magnetic moment $a_μ$, we examine the supersymmetry contribution to $a_μ$ in various mediation models of supersymmetry breaking which lead to predictive flavor conserving soft parameters at high energy scale. The studied models include dilaton/modulus-mediated models in heterotic string/$M$ theory, gauge-mediated model, no-scale or gaugino-mediated model, and also the minimal and deflected anomaly-mediated models. For each model, the range of $a^{SUSY}_μ$ allowed by other experimental constraints, e.g. b --> sγand the collider bounds on superparticle masses, is obtained together with the corresponding parameter region of the model. Gauge-mediated models with low messenger scale can give any $a^{SUSY}_μ$ within the $2σ$ bound. In many other models, b --> sγfavors $a^{SUSY}_μ$ smaller than either the $-1σ$ value ($26\times 10^{-10}$) or the central value ($42\times 10^{-10}$).

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Implications of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and Higgs-mediated flavor changing neutral currents

In the light of the recent measurement of the muon anmalous magnetic moment $a_μ$ by the Muon $(g-2)$ Collaboration, we examine the contribution to $a_μ$ from the exchange of flavor changing scalars. Assuming that the heavier generations have larger flavor changing couplings, we obtain a bound on $μ- τ$ Yukawa coupling for a given scalar mass. Constraints on other flavor changing/conserving couplings are also obtained from the lepton flavor violating decays of muon and tau lepton, and bounds on the branching ratio of $τ\to 3 e$, $μ\to 3 e$ and $τ\to e μe$ processes are predicted.

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