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Fine-tuning and naturalness issues in the two-zero neutrino mass textures

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-04 v2

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the compatibility of two-zero neutrino Majorana textures with the recent experimental data. Differently from previous works, we use the experimental data to fix the values of the non-vanishing mass matrix entries and study in detail the correlations and degree of fine-tuning among them, which is also a measure of how naturally a given texture is able to describe all neutrino data. This information is then used to expand the textures in powers of the Cabibbo angle; extracting random O(1) coefficients, we show that only in few cases such textures reproduce the mixing parameters in their 3 sigma ranges.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2706,
  title  = {Fine-tuning and naturalness issues in the two-zero neutrino mass textures},
  author = {G. Blankenburg and D. Meloni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2706},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 14 figures. Version to appear in NPB