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Texture dynamics including potential sterile neutrino

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-02 v1

Abstract

A unified form of mass matrix proposed previously for all fundamental fermions is extended to include the sterile neutrino νs\nu_s, presumed to mix mainly with νe\nu_e, while ντ\nu_\tau mixes strongly with νμ\nu_\mu (and both νμ\nu_\mu and ντ\nu_\tau weakly with νe\nu_e and νs\nu_s). It turns out that the former mixing can be responsible for oscillations of solar neutrinos, while the latter for those of atmospheric neutrinos. It is mentioned in a footnote that νs\nu_s is one of two sterile neutrinos, possible from a viewpoint of an algebraic construction. The charged-lepton factor U(e)U^{(e)} in the leptonic four-dimensional CKM matrix V=U(ν)U(e)V=U^{(\nu) \dagger}U^{(e)} is determined through the small deviation of our previous prediction mτ=1776.80m_\tau=1776.80 MeV (valid at the level of U(e)=1 U^{(e)} = {\bf 1}) from the experimental value mτ=1777.000.27+0.30m_\tau=1777.00^{+0.30}_{-0.27} MeV. Then, it gives corrections to the four-dimensional mixing of νe\nu_e, νμ\nu_\mu, ντ\nu_\tau, νs\nu_s leading, in particular, to small νeνμ\nu_e\to\nu_\mu, νeντ\nu_e\to \nu_\tau and νμνs\nu_\mu\to\nu_s oscillations (absent at the level of U(e)=1U^{(e)}= 1). However, the LSND estimates of νˉμνˉe\bar{\nu}_\mu \to \bar{\nu}_e and νμνe\nu_\mu\to\nu_e oscillations are too large to be explained by these corrections, though in the case of νμνe\nu_\mu \to\nu_e they seem to be at the edge of such possible explanation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9803323,
  title  = {Texture dynamics including potential sterile neutrino},
  author = {W. Krolikowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9803323},
  year   = {2022}
}

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