98 research outputs found
Light Sterile Neutrinos from Large Extra Dimensions
An experimentally verifiable Higgs-triplet model of neutrino masses from
large extra dimensions was recently proposed. We extend it to accomodate a
light sterile neutrino which also mixes with the three active neutrinos. A
previously proposed phenomenological model of four neutrinos (\underline {the
only viable such model now left}, in view of the latest atmospheric and solar
neutrino-oscillation data) is specifically realized.Comment: 10 pages, no figure, remarks and references adde
Supersymmetric Triplet Higgs Model of Neutrino Masses and Leptogenesis
We construct a supersymmetric version of the triplet Higgs model for neutrino
masses, which can generate a baryon asymmetry of the Universe through
lepton-number violation and is consistent with the gravitino constraints.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figure
Simple description of neutrinos in SU(5)
We show that experimental results for the masses and mixing of the neutrinos
can be understood naturally by a simple grand unification model of SU(5)
coupled to N=1 supergravity. No right-handed neutrinos are included. The
left-handed neutrinos receive Majorana masses through the couplings with a
Higgs boson of symmetric representation. Introducing
representation is optional for describing the masses of down-type quarks and
charged leptons.Comment: 10 page
Neutrino Exotica in the Skew E_6 Left-Right Model
With the particle content of the 27 representation of E_6, a skew left-right
supersymmetric gauge model was proposed many years ago, with a variety of
interesting phenomenological implications. The neutrino sector of this model
offers a natural framework for obtaining small Majorana masses for nu_e, nu_mu,
and nu_tau, with the added bonus of accommodating 2 light sterile neutrinos.Comment: 12 pages, no figure, conclusion clarifie
Four species neutrino oscillations at -Factory: sensitivity and CP-violation
The prospects of measuring the leptonic angles and CP-odd phases at a {\em
neutrino factory} are discussed in the scenario of three active plus one
sterile neutrino. We consider the \nu_\mu \raw \nu_e LSND signal. Its
associated large mass difference leads to observable neutrino oscillations at
short ( km) baseline experiments. Sensitivities to the leptonic angles
down to can be easily achieved with a 1 Ton detector. Longer baseline
experiments ( km) with a 1 Kton detector can provide very clean tests
of CP-violation especially through tau lepton detection.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX2e, 14 eps files, use package epsfi
Classification of Effective Neutrino Mass Operators
We present a classification of SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) gauge invariant \Delta L
= 2 (L being lepton number) effective operators relevant for generating small
Majorana neutrino masses. Operators of dimension up to 11 have been included in
our analysis. This approach enables us to systematically identify interesting
neutrino mass models. It is shown that many of the well-known models fall into
this classification. In addition, a number of new models are proposed and their
neutrino phenomenology is outlined. Of particular interest is a large class of
models in which neutrinoless double beta decays arise at a lower order compared
to the neutrino mass, making these decays accessible to the current round of
experiments.Comment: 34 pages in RevTeX with 18 figure
Role of lepton flavor violating (LFV) muon decay in Seesaw model and LSND
The aim of the work is to study LFV in a newly proposed Seesaw model of
neutrino mass and to see whether it could explain LSND excess. The motivation
of this Seesaw model was that there was no new physics beyond the TeV scale. By
studying \mu \to 3e in this model, it is shown that the upper bound on the
branching ratio requires Higgs mass m_{h} of a new scalar doublet with lepton
number L=-1 needed in the model has to be about 9 TeV. The predicted branching
ratio for \mu \to e\nu_{l}\bar{\nu}_{l} is too small to explain the LSND. PACS:
11.30.Hv, 14.60.PqComment: 05 pages, three figures, the version to appear in PR
Neutrino masses through see-saw mechanism in 3-3-1 models
Some years ago it was shown by Ma that in the context of the electroweak
standard model there are, at the tree level, only three ways to generate small
neutrino masses by the see-saw mechanism via one effective dimension-five
operator. Here we extend this approach to 3-3-1 chiral models showing that in
this case there are several dimension-five operators and we also consider their
tree level realization.Comment: RevTex, 7 pages and 4 .eps figures. Version published in Phys. Rev.
D. with a change in the titl
Constraining dynamical dark energy with a divergence-free parametrization in the presence of spatial curvature and massive neutrinos
In this paper, we report the results of constraining the dynamical dark
energy with a divergence-free parameterization, , in the presence of spatial curvature and
massive neutrinos, with the 7-yr WMAP temperature and polarization data, the
power spectrum of LRGs derived from SDSS DR7, the Type Ia supernova data from
Union2 sample, and the new measurements of from HST, by using a MCMC
global fit method. Our focus is on the determinations of the spatial curvature,
, and the total mass of neutrinos, , in such a
dynamical dark energy scenario, and the influence of these factors to the
constraints on the dark energy parameters, and . We show that
and can be well constrained in this model; the 95% CL
limits are: and eV. Comparing to
the case in a flat universe, we find that the error in is amplified by
25.51%, and the error in is amplified by 0.14%; comparing to the case
with a zero neutrino mass, we find that the error in is amplified by
12.24%, and the error in is amplified by 1.63%.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; discussions added; accepted for publication in
Physics Letters
Neutrino Oscillations in the Framework of Three-Generation Mixings with Mass Hierarchy
We have analyzed the results of reactor and accelerator neutrino oscillation
experiments in the framework of a general model with mixing of three neutrino
fields and a neutrino mass hierarchy that can accommodate the results of the
solar neutrino experiments. It is shown that
oscillations with and amplitude
larger than are not compatible with the existing limits on
neutrino oscillations if the non-diagonal elements of the mixing matrix and are small. Thus, if the
excess of electron events recently observed in the LSND experiment is due to oscillations, the mixing in the lepton sector
is basically different from the CKM mixing of quarks. If this type of mixing is
realized in nature, the observation of
oscillations would not influence
oscillations that are being searched for in the CHORUS and NOMAD experiments.Comment: Revtex file, 13 pages + 2 figures (included). The postscript file of
text and figures is available at
http://www.to.infn.it/teorici/giunti/papers.html or
ftp://ftp.to.infn.it/pub/giunti/1995/dftt-25-95/dftt-25-95.ps.
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