English

Can the Zee Model Explain the Observed Neutrino Data?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

The eigenvalues and mixing angles in the Zee model are investigated parameter-independently. When we require |\Delta m^2_{12}/\Delta m^2_{23}| \ll 1 in order to understand the solar and atmospheric data simultaneously, the only solution is one which gives bi-maximal mixing. It is pointed out that the observed values \sin^2 2\theta_{solar} \simeq 0.66 in the MSW LMA solution cannot be explained within the framework of the Zee model, because we derive a severe constraint on the value of \sin^2 2 \theta_{solar}, \sin^2 2 \theta_{solar} \geq 1 -(1/16)(\Delta m^2_{solar}/\Delta m^2_{atm})^2.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0104226,
  title  = {Can the Zee Model Explain the Observed Neutrino Data?},
  author = {Yoshio Koide},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0104226},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex file, 10 pages, 1 figure, explanations and references added, typos corrected, to be published in Phys.Rev.D