Neutrino masses and mixing: A flavour symmetry roadmap

Abstract

Over the last ten years tri-bimaximal mixing has played an important role in modeling the flavour problem. We give a short review of the status of flavour symmetry models of neutrino mixing. We concentrate on non-Abelian discrete symmetries, which provide a simple way to account for the TBM pattern. We discuss phenomenological implications such as neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton flavour violation as well as theoretical aspects such as the possibility to explain quarks and leptons within a common framework, such as grand unified models. Over the last ten years tri-bimaximal mixing has played an important role in modeling the flavour problem. Here is a short review of the status of flavour symmetry models of neutrino mixing. The authors concentrate on non-Abelian discrete symmetries, which provide a simple way to account for the TBM pattern. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.