A Shift from Democratic to Tri-bimaximal Neutrino Mixing with Relatively Large
Nov, 2010Citations per year
Abstract: (Elsevier)
Recent neutrino oscillation data hint that the smallest neutrino mixing angle θ13 is possible to lie in the range 5°≲θ13≲12° . We show that reasonable perturbations to the democratic mixing pattern, which is geometrically related to the tri-bimaximal mixing pattern through an equal shift θ⁎≃9.7° of two large mixing angles, can naturally produce a nearly tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing matrix V with sufficiently large θ13 . Two especially simple but viable scenarios of V are proposed and their phenomenological consequences are discussed.- 14.60.Pq
- 13.10.+q
- 25.30.Pt
- Neutrino masses
- Democratic mixing
- Tri-bimaximal mixing
- neutrino: mixing
- neutrino: oscillation
- perturbation: effect
- lepton: mass
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