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Large neutrino mixing from renormalization group evolution

  • 1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (India).
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States).
  • 4. Department of Physics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong (India).
  • 5. Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Dortmund, Dortmund (Germany).

Description

The renormalization group evolution equation for two neutrino mixing is known to exhibit nontrivial fixed point structure corresponding to maximal mixing at the weak scale. The presence of the fixed point provides a natural explanation of the observed maximal mixing of νμ - ντ, if the νμ and ντ are assumed to be quasi-degenerate at the seesaw scale without constraining the mixing angles at that scale. In particular, it allows them to be similar to the quark mixings as in generic grand unified theories. We discuss implementation of this program in the case of MSSM and find that the predicted mixing remains stable and close to its maximal value, for all energies below the O(TeV) SUSY scale. We also discuss how a particular realization of this idea can be tested in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. (author)

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
17 p.
Report number
IC--2000/160

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Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
32002546
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
GEV RANGE 100-1000; GROUP THEORY; MASS RENORMALIZATION; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; SUPERSYMMETRY; TEV RANGE 01-10
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY RANGE; GEV RANGE; MATHEMATICS; RENORMALIZATION; SYMMETRY; TEV RANGE

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Project 98/37/9/BRNS-Cell/731
Notes
17 refs, 4 figs
Secondary number(s)
UMD-PP--01-21; NEHU/PHY-MP--04/2000