Document Type
Article
Date
2-17-2004
Language
English
Disciplines
Physics
Description/Abstract
We further study the previously proposed Ansatz, Tr(M)=0, for a prediagonal light Majorana type neutrino mass matrix. If CP violation is neglected this enables one to use the existing data on squared mass differences to estimate (up to a discrete ambiguity)the neutrino masses themselves. If it is assumed that only the conventional CP phase is present, the ansatz enables us to estimate this phase in addition to all three masses. If it is assumed that only the two Majorana CP phases are present, the Ansatz enables us to obtain a one parameter family of solutions for the masses and phases. This enables us to obtain a simple "global" view of lepton number violation effects. Furthermore, using an SO(10) motivation for the Ansatz suggests an amusing toy (clone) model in which the heavy neutrinos have the same mixing pattern and mass ratios as the light ones. In this case only their overall mass scale is not known (although it is constrained by the initial motivation). Using this toy model we make a rough estimate of the baryon to photon ratio induced by the leptogenesis mechanism. Solutions close to the CP conserving cases seem to be favored.
Recommended Citation
Schechter, Joseph; Nasri, Salah; and Moussa, Sherif, "Leptonic CP Violation Phases Using an Ansatz for the Neutrino Mass Matrix and Application to Leptogenesis" (2004). Physics - All Scholarship. 276.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/276
Source
Harvested from Arxiv.org
Creative Commons License
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Additional Information
14 pages, 1 figure as compressed uuencoded file appended at the end of the paper, report# SU-4240-581 More information available at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0402176