Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-05-22
Prog.Theor.Phys. 106 (2001) 587-602
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, latex, 3 eps-figures
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTP.106.587
We propose a simple model of the neutrino mass matrix which can explain the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems in a 3($\nu_L + \nu_R$) framework. Assuming that only two right-handed neutrinos are heavy and a Dirac mass matrix has a special texture, we construct a model with four light neutrinos. The favorable structure of flavor mixings and mass eigenvalues required by those neutrino deficits is realized as a result of the seesaw mechanism. Bi-maximal mixing structure might be obtainable in this scheme. Since it contains a light sterile neutrino, it has a chance to explain the LSND result successfully. We consider an embedding of this scenario for the neutrino mass matrix into the SU(5) grand unification scheme using the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism based on $U(1)_{F_1} \times U(1)_{F_2}$. Both a small mixing angle MSW solution and a large mixing angle MSW solution are obtained for the solar neutrino problem depending on the charged lepton mass matrix.
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