Friday, October 19, 2012

1210.5074 (Debasish Borah et al.)

Quasi-Degenerate Neutrinos with non-zero θ_{13} in Type I+II Seesaw
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Debasish Borah, Mrinal Kumar Das
We study the survivability of quasi-degenerate neutrino (QDN) masses with normal as well as inverted hierarchical mass patterns in the presence of both type I and type II seesaw contributions to neutrino mass in generic left-right symmetric models. At leading order, the Dirac neutrino mass matrix is assumed to be diagonal with either charged lepton (CL) type or up quark (UQ) type structure which gets corrected by non-leading effects giving rise to deviations from tri-bi-maximal (TBM) mixing and hence non-zero value of $\theta_{13}$. Using the standard form of neutrino mass matrix which incorporates such non-leading effects within flavor symmetry models like $A_4$, we parametrize the neutrino mass matrix incorporating both oscillation as well as cosmology data. Also considering extremal values of Majorana CP phases such that the neutrino mass eigenvalues have the structure $(m_1, -m_2, m_3)$ and $(m_1, m_2, m_3)$, we then calculate the predictions for neutrino parameters in the presence of both type I and type II seesaw contributions, taking one of them dominant and the other sub-dominant. We show that QDN scenario can still survive in our framework with certain exceptions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5074

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