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Is there a dynamical group structure behind the bilarge form of neutrino mixing matrix?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We observe that the {\it invariance} of neutrino mixing matrix under the simultaneous discrete transformations ν1,ν2,ν3ν1,ν2,ν3\nu_1, \nu_2, \nu_3 \to -\nu_1, -\nu_2, \nu_3 and νe,νμ,ντνe,ντ,νμ\nu_e, \nu_\mu, \nu_\tau \to -\nu_e, \nu_\tau, \nu_\mu (neutrino "horizontal conjugation") {\it characterizes} (as a sufficient condition for it) the familiar bilarge form of neutrino mixing matrix, favored experimentally at present. Thus, the mass neutrinos ν1,ν2,ν3\nu_1, \nu_2, \nu_3 get a new quantum number, {\it covariant} with respect to their mixings into the flavor neutrinos νe,νμ,ντ\nu_e, \nu_\mu, \nu_\tau (neutrino "horizontal parity" equal to -1, -1,1, respectively). The "horizontal parity" turns out to be embedded in a group structure consisting of some Hermitian and real 3×33\times 3 matrices μ1,μ2,μ3\mu_1, \mu_2, \mu_3 and ϕ1,ϕ2,ϕ3\phi_1, \phi_2, \phi_3 , forming pairs interconnected through neutrino mixings. They generate some discrete transformations of mass and flavor neutrinos, respectively, in such a way that the group relations μ1μ2=μ3\mu_1 \mu_2 = \mu_3 (cyclic) and ϕ1ϕ2=ϕ3\phi_1 \phi_2 = \phi_3 (cyclic) hold, while μaμb=μbμa\mu_a \mu_b = \mu_b \mu_a and ϕaϕb=ϕbϕa\phi_a \phi_b = \phi_b \phi_a . Then, for instance, the μ3\mu_3 matrix may be chosen equal to the "horizontal parity".

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0304259,
  title  = {Is there a dynamical group structure behind the bilarge form of neutrino mixing matrix?},
  author = {W. Krolikowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0304259},
  year   = {2007}
}

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1+9 pages, latex, no figures