Tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing and neutrinoless double beta decay

Apr, 2008
4 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 78 (2008) 093007
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a tri-bimaximal lepton mixing scheme where the neutrinoless double beta decay rate (bb0v) has a lower bound which correlates with the ratio alpha = Dmsol/Dmatm well determined by current data, as well as with the unknown Majorana CP phase phi12 characterizing the solar neutrino sub-system. For the special value phi12 = pi/2 (opposite CP-sign neutrinos) the bb0v rate vanishes at tree level when Dmsol/Dmatm = 3/80, only allowed at 3 sigma. For all other cases the rate is nonzero, and lies within current and projected experimental sensitivities close to phi12=0. We suggest two model realizations of this scheme in terms of an A4xZ2 and A4xZ4 flavour symmetries.
  • 14.60.Pq
  • 11.30.Hv
  • 14.80.Cp
  • neutrino: mixing angle
  • neutrino: mass
  • neutrino: mass difference
  • double-beta decay: (0neutrino)
  • CP: violation
  • amplitude analysis: decay
  • neutrino: oscillation
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