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Deviation from Tri-Bimaximal Neutrino mixing from the Charged Lepton Sector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-09-17 v2

Abstract

The tri-bimaximal mixing matrix is most likely the leading order term in the description of leptonic mixing. We derive deviations from tri-bimaximal mixing(TBM) due to corrections from the charged lepton sector. We assume a decoupled 2-3 symmetry, which is a Z2Z_2 symmetry, in the charged lepton sector and another Z2Z_2 symmetry in the neutrino sector. The TBM is obtained in the flavor symmetric limit. We consider deviations from the TBM form arising from the breaking of the 2-3 symmetry in the charged lepton sector but do not consider deviations from the breaking of the flavor symmetry in the neutrino sector. In particular we find the size of sinθ13\sin{\theta_{13}} to be related to the deviation sinθ12\sin{\theta_{12}} from 1/3\sqrt{1/3} while the deviation of sinθ23\sin{\theta_{23}} from its tri-bimaximal value is mμmτ \sim {m_{\mu} \over m_{\tau}}.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0420,
  title  = {Deviation from Tri-Bimaximal Neutrino mixing from the Charged Lepton Sector},
  author = {Alakabha Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0420},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures. Material and references added and reorganized. Conclusions are unchanged