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
Additional details
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
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.