A Shift from Democratic to Tri-bimaximal Neutrino Mixing with Relatively Large θ13\theta_{13}

Nov, 2010
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 696 (2011) 232-236
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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