Mixing of Active and Sterile Neutrinos

Details Mixing of Active and Sterile Neutrinos Mixing of Active and Sterile Neutrinos

2011-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/1101.1382v1

JHEP 1104:011,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

30 pages, 32 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP04(2011)011

We investigate mixing of neutrinos in the $\nu$MSM (neutrino Minimal Standard Model), which is the MSM extended by three right-handed neutrinos. Especially, we study elements of the mixing matrix $\Theta_{\alpha I}$ between three left-handed neutrinos $\nu_\alpha$ ($\alpha = e,\mu,\tau$) and two sterile neutrinos $N_I$ ($I=2,3$) which are responsible to the seesaw mechanism generating the suppressed masses of active neutrinos as well as the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU). It is shown that $\Theta_{eI}$ can be suppressed by many orders of magnitude compared with $\Theta_{\mu I}$ and $\Theta_{\tau I}$, when the Chooz angle $\theta_{13}$ is large in the normal hierarchy of active neutrino masses. We then discuss the neutrinoless double beta decay in this framework by taking into account the contributions not only from active neutrinos but also from all the three sterile neutrinos. It is shown that $N_2$ and $N_3$ give substantial, destructive contributions when their masses are smaller than a few 100 MeV, and as a results $\Theta_{e I}$ receive no stringent constraint from the current bounds on such decay. Finally, we discuss the impacts of the obtained results on the direct searches of $N_{2,3}$ in meson decays for the case when $N_{2,3}$ are lighter than pion mass. We show that there exists the allowed region for $N_{2,3}$ with such small masses in the normal hierarchy case even if the current bound on the lifetimes of $N_{2,3}$ from the big bang nucleosynthesis is imposed. It is also pointed out that the direct search by using $\pi^+ \to e^+ + N_{2,3}$ and $K^+ \to e^+ + N_{2,3}$ might miss such $N_{2,3}$ since the branching ratios can be extremely small due to the cancellation in $\Theta_{eI}$, but the search by $K^+ \to \mu^+ + N_{2,3}$ can cover the whole allowed region by improving the measurement of the branching ratio by a factor of 5.

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