Published December 5, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Neutrino masses and non-abelian horizontal symmetries

Description

Recently neutrino experiments have made very significant progresses and our knowledge of neutrino masses and mixing has considerably improved. In a model-independent Monte Carlo approach, we have examined a very large class of textures, in the context of non-abelian horizontal symmetries; we have found that neutrino data select only those charged lepton matrices with left-right asymmetric texture. The large atmospheric mixing angle needs m23≅m33. This result, if combined with similar recent findings for the quark sector in the B oscillations, can be interpreted as a hint for SU(5) unification. In the neutrino sector strict neutrino anarchy is disfavored by data, and at least a factor 2 of suppression in the first row and column of the neutrino Majorana mass matrix is required

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Identifiers

PII
S0370269302029040;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
549
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 325-336
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37072678
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMMETRY; MASS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRINOS; QUARKS; SYMMETRY; WEINBERG ANGLE
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES

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Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.