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Radiative stability of neutrino-mass textures
Neutrino-mass textures proposed at high-scales are known to be unstable
against radiative corrections especially for nearly degenerate eigen values.
Within the renormalization group constraints we find a mechanism in a class of
gauge theories which guarantees reproduction of any high-scale texture at low
energies with radiative stability. We also show how the mechanism explains
solar and atmospheric neutrino anomalies through the bimaximal texture at high
scale.Comment: 4 pages REVTEX, 1 Postscript fi
Canonical Constraints on Leptonic Cp Violation using UHCR neutrino fluxes
It is shown that one can in principle constrain the CP-violating parameter
delta from measurements of four independant |V_{ij}|^2, or three of them and a
ratio, in the leptonic sector. To quantify our approach, using unitarity, we
derive simple expressions in terms of four independant |V_{ij}|^2 for
cos(delta) and an expression for sin^2(delta) from J^2. Thus, depending on the
values of |V_{ij}| and their accuracy, we can set meaningful limits on |delta|.
To illustrate numerically, if |V_{u1}|^2 is close to 0.1 with a 10% precision,
and if |V_{e3}^2 is larger than 0.005 and for values of |V_{e2}|^2 and
|V_{u3}|^2 that stay within +-0.1 of the current experimental data leads to a
bound pi/2 < |delta| < pi. Alternatively, a certain combination of parameters
with values of |V_{e3}|^2 larger than 0.01 leads to a closed bound of 73 <
|delta| < 103. In general, we find that it is better to use |V_{u1}|^2 or
|V_{t1}|^2 as the fourth independant |V_{ij}|^2 and that over most of the
parameter space, delta is least sensitive to |V_{e3}|^2. With just three
independant measurements (solar, atmospheric and reactor) it is impossible to
set limits on the CP phase. In this respect, we study the use of ultra high
energy cosmic (UHCR) neutrino fluxes as the additional fourth information. We
find that within the SM, neutrino fluxes of all three flavours will be very
similar but that pushing current neutrino data to their extreme values still
allowed, ratios of cosmic neutrino fluxes can differ by up to 20%; such large
discrepancies could imply negligibly small CP-violation. We also study a non
radiative neutrino decay model and find that the neutrino fluxes can differ by
a factor of up to 3 within this model and that an accuracy of 10% on the
neutrino fluxes is sufficient to set interestin limits on delta.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, 5 table
Seesaw Neutrino Masses with Large Mixings from Dimensional Deconstruction
We demonstrate a dynamical origin for the dimension-five seesaw operator in
dimensional deconstruction models. Light neutrino masses arise from the seesaw
scale which corresponds to the inverse lattice spacing. It is shown that the
deconstructing limit naturally prefers maximal leptonic mixing. Higher-order
corrections which are allowed by gauge invariance can transform the bi-maximal
into a bi-large mixing. These terms may appear to be non-renormalizable at
scales smaller than the deconstruction scale.Comment: Revised version published in PR
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