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Unitarity constraints on trimaximal mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-08-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

When the neutrino mass eigenstate ν2\nu_2 is trimaximally mixed, the mixing matrix is called trimaximal. The middle column of trimaximal mixing matrix is identical to tri-bimaximal mixing and the other two columns are subject to unitarity constraints. This corresponds to a mixing matrix with four independent parameters in the most general case. Apart from the two Majorana phases, the mixing matrix has only one free parameter in the CP conserving limit. Trimaximality results into interesting interplay between mixing angles and CP violation. A notion of maximal CP violation naturally emerges here: CP violation is maximal for maximal 2-3 mixing. Similarly, there is a natural constraint on the deviation from maximal 2-3 mixing which takes its maximal value in the CP conserving limit.

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@article{arxiv.1007.0808,
  title  = {Unitarity constraints on trimaximal mixing},
  author = {Sanjeev Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.0808},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages, 10 figures, Physical Review D (to appear)

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