Leptonic sum rules from flavour models with modular symmetries

Sum rules in the lepton sector provide an extremely valuable tool to classify flavour models in terms of relations between neutrino masses and mixing parameters testable in a plethora of experiments. In this manuscript we identify new leptonic sum rules arising in models with modular symmetries with residual symmetries. These models simultaneously present neutrino mass sum rules, involving masses and Majorana phases, and mixing sum rules, connecting the mixing angles and the Dirac CP-violating phase. The simultaneous appearance of both types of sum rules leads to some non-trivial interplay, for instance, the allowed absolute neutrino mass scale exhibits a dependence on the Dirac CP-violating phase. We derive analytical expressions for these novel sum rules and present their allowed parameter ranges as well as their predictions at upcoming neutrino experiments.

The SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis timely opportunity

We study the connection between absolute neutrino mass and neutrino mixing parameters within SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis. We show that current favoured values of the unknown neutrino mixing parameters point toward values of the absolute neutrino mass scale that will be fully tested by cosmological observations and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments during next years. In particular, for mD2/mcharm≤ 5, where mD2 is the intermediate Dirac neutrino mass, and for current best fit values of the Dirac phase δ and the atmospheric mixing angle θ23, we derive a lower bound on the neutrinoless double beta decay effective neutrino mass mee ≳ 31 meV and on the sum of the neutrino masses Σimi ≳ 125 meV. These lower bounds hold for normally ordered neutrino masses, as currently favoured by global analyses, and approximately for δ ∈ [155°, 240°] and θ23 in the second octant. If values in this region will be confirmed by future planned long baseline experiments, then a signal at next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments is expected, despite neutrino masses being normally ordered. Outside the region, the lower bounds strongly relax but a great fraction of the allowed range of values still allows a measurement of the lightest neutrino mass. Therefore, in the next years low energy neutrino experiments will provide a stringent test of SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis, that might result either in severe constraints or in a strong evidence.

Trimaximal mixing with one texture zero of the inverse neutrino mass matrix

In this paper, we study the phenomenological implications of enforcing one texture zero on the inverse matrix of the neutrino mass matrix [Formula: see text] that can lead to the trimaximal mixing. It is found that the condition of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] can hold in the case of normal neutrino mass ordering, while the condition of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] can hold in the case of inverted neutrino mass ordering, where [Formula: see text] (for [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]) denotes the [Formula: see text] entry of the inverse matrix of [Formula: see text]. The ranges of the absolute neutrino mass scale and three CP phases for these cases to hold are studied in some detail. The implications of these cases for the effective neutrino mass [Formula: see text] which controls the rates of the neutrino-less double beta decay processes are also given.

Distributed Computing for the Project 8 Experiment

The Project 8 collaboration aims to measure the absolute neutrino mass or improve on the current limit by measuring the tritium beta decay electron spectrum. We present the current distributed computing model for the Project 8 experiment. Project 8 is in its second phase of data taking with a near continuous data rate of 1Gbps. The current computing model uses DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control) for its workflow and data management. A detailed meta-data assignment using the DIRAC File Catalog is used to automate raw data transfers and subsequent stages of data processing. The DIRAC system is deployed on containers managed using a Kubernetes cluster to provide a scalable infrastructure. A modified DIRAC Site Director provides the ability to submit jobs using Singularity on opportunistic High-Performance Computing (HPC) sites.