arXiv:hep-ph/9908465·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Constraints on Neutrino Mixing
A.B. Balantekin (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA)🇺🇸 · G.M. Fuller (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA and Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA)🇺🇸
Abstract
We explore the implications of imposing the constraint that two neutrino flavors (which for definiteness we take to be the mu and tau neutrinos) are similarly coupled to the mass basis in addition to the unitarity constraints. We allow three active and an arbitrary number of sterile neutrinos. We show that in this scheme one of the mass eigenstates decouples from the problem, reducing the dimension of the flavor space by one.
Comments: 9 pages