Neutrino Oscillations via the Bulk

Abstract

We investigate the possibility that the large mixing of neutrinos is induced by their large coupling to a five-dimensional bulk neutrino. In the strong coupling limit the model is exactly soluble. It gives rise to an oscillation amplitude whose squared-mass difference is independent of the channel, thus making it impossible to explain both the solar and the atmospheric neutrino oscillations simultaneously.

Comments: References added and rearranged, typos corrected, a graph added, and more detailed explanations provided. To appear in Physical Review D