Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10723023 | Physics Letters B | 2011 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Recent neutrino oscillation data hint that the smallest neutrino mixing angle θ13 is possible to lie in the range 5°â²Î¸13â²12°. We show that reasonable perturbations to the democratic mixing pattern, which is geometrically related to the tri-bimaximal mixing pattern through an equal shift θââ9.7° of two large mixing angles, can naturally produce a nearly tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing matrix V with sufficiently large θ13. Two especially simple but viable scenarios of V are proposed and their phenomenological consequences are discussed.
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Authors
Zhi-zhong Xing,