Nonzero θ13 signals nonmaximal atmospheric neutrino mixing
Abstract
From recent groundbreaking experiments, it is now known that the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata mixing differs significantly from the tribimaximal model in which θ13=0 and θ23=π/4. Flavor symmetry can require that the departures from these two equations are linearly related. T' and A4, which successfully accommodated the pre-T2K Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix, predict that 38.07°≤θ23≤39.52° at 95% C.L. The best fit values, combining the model predictions with T2K, MINOS, Double Chooz, Daya Bay, and RENO data, are θ23=38.7° and θ13=8.9°.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1112.2675
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvD..86k7304E
- Keywords:
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- 14.60.Pq;
- 11.30.Hv;
- Neutrino mass and mixing;
- Flavor symmetries;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 1 figure. Published version Phys. Rev. D