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3+2 neutrinos in a see-saw variation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-27 v2

Abstract

If the sterile neutrino mass matrix in an otherwise conventional see-saw model has a rank less than the number of flavors, it is possible to produce pseudo-Dirac neutrinos. For the rank 1 case, 3+2 scenarios devolve naturally, as we show by example. Additionally, we find that the lower rank see-saw suppresses some mass differences, so that small mass differences do not require that the individual masses of each neutrino must also be small.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0307245,
  title  = {3+2 neutrinos in a see-saw variation},
  author = {G. J. Stephenson, and T. Goldman and B. H. J. McKellar and M. Garbutt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0307245},
  year   = {2012}
}

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17pp., 1 fig., revtex4; typo corrected in Table