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We study the minimal seesaw model, where two right-handed Majorana neutrinos are introduced, focusing on the CP violating phase. In addition, we take the trimaximal mixing pattern for the neutrino flavor where the charged lepton mass matrix is diagonal. Owing to this symmetric framework, the 3 × 2 Dirac neutrino mass matrix is given in terms of a few parameters. It is found that the observation of the CP violating phase determines the flavor structure of the Dirac neutrino mass matrix in the minimal seesaw model. New minimal Dirac neutrino mass matrices are presented in the case of TM1, which is given by the additional 2-3 family mixing to the tri-bimaximal mixing basis in the normal hierarchy of neutrino masses. Our model includes the Littlest seesaw model by King et al. as one of the specific cases. Furthermore, it is remarked that our 3 × 2 Dirac neutrino mass matrix is reproduced by introducing gauge singlet flavons with the specific alignments of the VEV’s. These alignments are derived from the residual symmetry of S4 group.
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Shimizu, Y., Takagi, K. & Tanimoto, M. Towards the minimal seesaw model via CP violation of neutrinos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 201 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)201
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