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Low scale gravity as the source of neutrino masses?
We address the question whether low-scale gravity alone can generate the
neutrino mass matrix needed to accommodate the observed phenomenology. In
low-scale gravity the neutrino mass matrix in the flavor basis is characterized
by one parameter (the gravity scale M_X) and by an exact or approximate flavor
blindness (namely, all elements of the mass matrix are of comparable size).
Neutrino masses and mixings are consistent with the observational data for
certain values of the matrix elements, but only when the spectrum of mass is
inverted or degenerate. For the latter type of spectra the parameter M_{ee}
probed in double beta experiments and the mass parameter probed by cosmology
are close to existing upper limits.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur