Neutrino Mass Sum Rules: Paving the Way from Model Building to Experiments

by Alexander Merle (MPP)

Thursday 20 Nov 2014, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

HS3 (Physikdepartment)

In this talk, I will advocate neutrino mass sum rules as being a powerful tool to realistically distinguish groups of neutrino flavour models by near-future data, thereby going all the way from theoretical considerations to the information relevant for experimentalists. I will explain how to obtain sum rules from suitable models and how to derive predictions, while avoiding the subtle pitfalls on the way. Then I will illustrate which predictions can be made and how drastically the general parameter space can be reduced in some cases. Finally I will comment on what we realistically could do with data from near future experiments.