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Neutrino Unification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Present neutrino data are consistent with neutrino masses arising from a common seed at some ``neutrino unification'' scale MXM_X. Such a simple theoretical ansatz naturally leads to quasi-degenerate neutrinos that could lie in the electron-volt range with neutrino mass splittings induced by renormalization effects associated with supersymmetric thresholds. In such a scheme the leptonic analogue of the Cabibbo angle θ\theta_{\odot} describing solar neutrino oscillations is nearly maximal. Its exact value is correlated with the smallness of θreactor\theta_{reactor}. These features agree both with latest data on the solar neutrino spectra and with the reactor neutrino data. The two leading mass-eigenstate neutrinos present in \ne form a pseudo-Dirac neutrino, avoiding conflict with neutrinoless double beta decay.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011150,
  title  = {Neutrino Unification},
  author = {P. H. Chankowski and A. Ioannisian and S. Pokorski and J. W. F Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011150},
  year   = {2008}
}

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RevTex format, 2 figures, 4 pages, a few new references, no other important change, figures unchanged, version to be published in PRL

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