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Neutrino Flavor Oscillations without Flavor Mixing Angles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that sizable neutrino flavor oscillations can be generated in a model with large extra spacetime dimensions even if the physics on the brane is flavor-diagonal, the bulk neutrino theory is flavor-neutral, and the brane/bulk couplings are flavor-blind. This is thus a compact model for addressing neutrino flavor oscillations in higher dimensions. We also discuss several phenomenological aspects of the ``bulk-mediated'' neutrino oscillations inherent in this model, and show that this model contains some potentially important new phenomenological features in the limit of large brane/bulk coupling.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0008144,
  title  = {Neutrino Flavor Oscillations without Flavor Mixing Angles},
  author = {Keith R. Dienes and Ina Sarcevic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0008144},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, version submitted to Phys. Lett. B