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Predicting Leptonic CP phase by considering deviations in charged lepton and neutrino sectors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-02 v2

Abstract

Recently, the reactor mixing angle θ13\theta_{13} has been measured precisely by Daya Bay, RENO and T2K experiments with a moderately large value. However, the standard form of neutrino mixing patterns such as bimaximal, tri-bimaximal, golden ratio of types A and B, hexagonal etc., which are based on certain flavor symmetries, predict vanishing θ13\theta_{13}. Using the fact that the neutrino mixing matrix can be represented as VPMNS=UlUνPνV_{\rm PMNS}=U_l^{\dagger} U_\nu P_\nu, where UlU_l and UνU_\nu result from the diagonalization of the charged lepton and neutrino mass matrices and PνP_\nu is a diagonal matrix containing Majorana phases, we explore the possibility of accounting for the large reactor mixing angle by considering deviations both in the charged lepton and neutrino sector. In the charged lepton sector we consider the deviation as an additional rotation in the (12) and (13) planes, whereas in neutrino sector we consider deviations to various neutrino mixing patterns through (13) and (23) rotations. We find that with the inclusion of these deviations it is possible to accommodate the observed large reactor mixing angle θ13\theta_{13}, and one can also obtain limits on the CP violating Dirac phase δCP\delta_{CP} and Jarlskog invariant JCPJ_{CP} for most of the cases. We then explore whether our findings can be tested in the currently running NOν\nuA experiment with 3 years of data taking in neutrino mode followed by 3 years with anti-neutrino mode.

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@article{arxiv.1408.4392,
  title  = {Predicting Leptonic CP phase by considering deviations in charged lepton and neutrino sectors},
  author = {Sruthilaya M. and Soumya C. and K. N. Deepthi and R. Mohanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4392},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages, 5 figures, revised version, to appear in New Journal of Physics