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Neutrinos: How Do They Mix and Violate CP ?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss a simple model of lepton mixing and CP violation based on the flavor democracy of charge leptons and the mass degeneracy of neutrinos. A nearly bi-maximal flavor mixing pattern, which is favored by current data on atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations, emerges naturally from this model after explicit symmetry breaking. The rephasing-invariant strength of CP or T violation can be as large as one percent, leading to significant probability asymmetries between \nu_\mu \to \nu_e and \bar{\nu}_\mu \to \bar{\nu}_e (or \nu_e \to \nu_\mu) transitions in the long-baseline neutrino experiments. The possible matter effects on CP- and T-violating asymmetries are also taken into account.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005148,
  title  = {Neutrinos: How Do They Mix and Violate CP ?},
  author = {Harald Fritzsch and Zhi-zhong Xing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005148},
  year   = {2007}
}

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LaTex 10 pages (frascatiphys.sty). Talk given (by H.F.) at the 14th Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, February 2000