Radiatively broken symmetries of nonhierarchical neutrinos
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005 (India)
- Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019 (India)
Symmetry-based ideas, such as the quark-lepton complementarity principle and the tribimaximal mixing scheme, have been proposed to explain the observed mixing pattern of neutrinos. We argue that such symmetry relations need to be imposed at a high scale {lambda}{approx}10{sup 12} GeV characterizing the large masses of right-handed neutrinos required to implement the seesaw mechanism. For nonhierarchical neutrinos, renormalization group evolution down to a laboratory energy scale {lambda}{approx}10{sup 3} GeV tends to radiatively break these symmetries at a significant level and spoil the mixing pattern predicted by them. However, for Majorana neutrinos, suitable constraints on the extra phases {alpha}{sub 2,3} enable the retention of those high scale mixing patterns at laboratory energies. We examine this issue within the minimal supersymmetric standard model and demonstrate the fact posited above for two versions of quark-lepton complementarity and two versions of tribimaximal mixing. The appropriate constraints are worked out for all these four cases. Specifically, a preference for {alpha}{sub 2}{approx_equal}{pi} (i.e., m{sub 1}{approx_equal}-m{sub 2}) emerges in each case. We also show how a future accurate measurement of {theta}{sub 13} may enable some discrimination among these four cases in spite of renormalization group evolution.
- OSTI ID:
- 21032620
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.096005; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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