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Title: Pattern of neutrino mixing in grand unified theories

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6292645· OSTI ID:6292645

It was found previously in SO(10) grand unified theories that if the neutrinos have a Dirac mass and a right-handed Majorana mass (approx. 10/sup 15/GeV) but no left-handed Majorana mass, there is small ..nu../sub e/ mixing but ..nu../sub ..mu../ - ..nu../sub tau/ mixing can be substantial. This problem is reexamined on the basis of a formalism that assumes that the up, down, lepton, and neutrino mass matrices arise from a single complex 10 and a single 126 Higgs boson. This formalism determines the Majorana mass matrix in terms of quark mass matrices. Adopting three different sets of quark mass matrices that produce acceptable fermion mass ratios and Cabbibo mixing produces results consistent with the above; however, in the optimum case, ..nu../sub e/ - ..nu../sub ..mu../ mixing can be of the order of the Cabbibo angle.

Research Organization:
Ohio State Univ., Columbus (USA). Dept. of Physics
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ER01545
OSTI ID:
6292645
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/01545-309; ON: DE81029034; TRN: 81-015706
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English