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Natural Neutrino Mass Matrix

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-02-11 v2

Abstract

Naturalness of the neutrino mass hierarchy and mixing is studied. First we select among 12 neutrino mixing patterns a few patterns, which could form the natural neutrino mass matrix. Further we show that if the Dirac neutrino mass matrix is taken as the natural one in the quark sector, then only two mixing patterns without the large mixing lead to the natural right-handed Majorana mass matrix. The rest of the chosen patterns with three degenerate mass solution lead to the unnatural right-handed Majorana mass matrix in the see-saw mechanism. Notice however, that for the chosen two natural patterns there could be a huge mass hierarchy such as O(1046){\cal O}(10^{4\sim 6}) in order to reproduce the inverse mass hierarchy of the light neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9711294,
  title  = {Natural Neutrino Mass Matrix},
  author = {Masahisa Matsuda and Morimitsu Tanimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9711294},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

31 pages, LaTex file, no figures, arguments made more clear, main conclusions unchanged, version accepted for publication in PRD Reort-no: Lund-Mph-97/14 Revised