https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2081-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Non-vanishing U e3 under S 3 symmetry
Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 156-756, South Korea
* e-mail: siyeon@cau.ac.kr
Received:
19
May
2012
Revised:
4
July
2012
Published online:
18
July
2012
This work proposes two models of neutrino masses that predict non-zero θ
13 under the non-Abelian discrete flavor symmetry . We advocate that the size of θ
13 is understood as a group theoretical consequence rather than a perturbed effect from the tri-bi-maximal mixing. So, the difference of two models is designed only in terms of the flavor symmetry, by changing the charge assignment of right-handed neutrinos. The PMNS matrix in the first model is obtained from both mass matrices, charged leptons giving rise to non-zero
and neutrino masses giving rise to tri-bi-maximal mixing. The physical mixing angles are expressed by a simple relation between
and tri-bi-maximal angles to fit the recent experimental results. The other model generates PMNS matrix with non-zero θ
13, only from the neutrino mass transformation. The 5-dimensional effective theory of Majorana neutrinos obtained in this framework is tested with phenomenological bounds in the parametric spaces sinθ
23,sinθ
12 and m
2/m
3 vs. sinθ
13.
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