Neutrino mass spectrum from the results of neutrino oscillation experiments

Abstract

All the possible schemes of neutrino mixing with four massive neutrinos inspired by the existing experimental indications in favor of neutrino mixing are considered in a model independent way. Assuming that in short-baseline experiments only one mass-squared difference is relevant, it is shown that the scheme with a neutrino mass hierarchy is not compatible with the experimental results. Only two schemes with two pairs of neutrinos with close masses separated by a mass difference of the order of 1 eV are in agreement with the results of all experiments. One of these schemes leads to possibly observable effects in Tritium and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments.

Comments: Latex2e file, 13 pages including 2 figures. Postscript also available at http://www.to.infn.it/teorici/giunti/papers.html