Power law enhancement of neutrino mixing angles in extra dimensions

Abstract

We study the renormalization of the $llHH$-type Majorana neutrino mass operator in a scenario where there is a compactified extra dimension and the fields involved correspond to only the standard model particles and their Kaluza-Klein excitations. We observe that in a two flavour scenario, where one of the neutrinos is necessarily ${\nu }_{\tau }$, it is indeed possible to generate a large mixing at $\sim$ 100 GeV starting from a very small mixing near the ultra-violet cutoff $\sim$ 30 TeV. {\em En passant}, we also derive the Higgs mass upper and lower limits from perturbative unitarity and stability of the potential, respectively.

Comments: Latex, 6 pages, one pslatex figure; v2: clarifying remarks added, minor typos corrected, references updated, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D