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An extension of tribimaximal lepton mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Harrison, Perkins and Scott have proposed simple charged lepton and neutrino mass matrices that lead to the tribimaximal mixing UTBMU_{\rm TBM}. We consider in this work an extension of the mass matrices so that the leptonic mixing matrix becomes UPMNS=VLUTBMWU_{\rm PMNS}=V_L^{\ell\dagger}U_{\rm TBM}W, where VLV_L^\ell is a unitary matrix needed to diagonalize the charged lepton mass matrix and WW measures the deviation of the neutrino mixing matrix from the bimaximal form. Hence, corrections to UTBMU_{\rm TBM} arise from both charged lepton and neutrino sectors. Following our previous work to assume a Qin-Ma-like parametrization VQMV_{\rm QM} for the charged lepton mixing matrix VLV_L^\ell in which the {\it CP}-odd phase is approximately maximal, we study the phenomenological implications in two different scenarios: VL=VQMV_L^\ell=V_{\rm QM}^\dagger and VL=VQMV_L^\ell=V_{\rm QM}. We find that the latter is more preferable, though both scenarios are consistent with the data within 3σ3\sigma ranges. The predicted reactor neutrino mixing angle θ13\theta_{13} in both scenarios is consistent with the recent T2K and MINOS data. The leptonic {\it CP} violation characterized by the Jarlskog invariant JCPJ_{\rm CP} is generally of order 10210^{-2}.

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@article{arxiv.1107.4549,
  title  = {An extension of tribimaximal lepton mixing},
  author = {Y. H. Ahn and Hai-Yang Cheng and Sechul Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4549},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages and 8 figures, Accepted in Phys.Review D