Sterile Neutrinos in E_6 and a Natural Understanding of Vacuum Oscillation Solution to the Solar Neutrino Puzzle

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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7 pages, UMD-PP-99-109; new references added; no other change

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10.1103/PhysRevD.61.053002

If Nature has chosen the vacuum oscillation solution to the Solar neutrino puzzle, a key theoretical challenge is to understand the extreme smallness of the $\Delta m^2_{\nu_e-\nu_X}$ ($\sim 10^{-10} eV^2$) required for the purpose. We find that in a class of models such as [SU(3)]^3 or its parent group E_6, which contain one sterile neutrino, $\nu_{is}$ for each family, the $\Delta m^2_{\nu_i-\nu_{is}}$ is proportional to the cube of the lepton Yukawa coupling. Therefore fitting the atmospheric neutrino data then predicts the $\nu_e-\nu_{es}$ mass difference square to be $\sim (\frac{m_e}{m_{\mu}})^3 \Delta m^2_{atmos}$, where the atmospheric neutrino data is assumed to be solved via the $\nu_{\mu}-\nu_{\mu s}$ oscillation. This provides a natural explanation of the vacuum oscillation solution to the solar neutrino problem.

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