Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-10-10
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 053009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Misprints above eq. (22) corrected. To appear in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.053009
Neutrino is a good probe of extra dimensions. Large mixing and the apparent lack of very complicated oscillation patterns may be an indication of large couplings between the brane and a single bulk neutrino. A simple and realistic five-dimensional model of this kind is discussed. It requires a sterile in addition to three active neutrinos on the brane, all coupled strongly to one common bulk neutrino, but not directly among themselves. Mindful that sterile neutrinos are disfavored in the atmospheric and solar data, we demand induced mixing to occur among the active neutrinos, but not between the active and the sterile. The size $R$ of the extra dimension is arbitrary in this model, otherwise it contains six parameters which can be used to fit the three neutrino masses and the three mixing angles. However, in the model those six parameters must be suitably ordered, so a successful fit is not guaranteed. It turns out that not only the data can be fitted, but as a result of the ordering, a natural connection between the smallness of the reactor angle $\theta_{13}$ and the smallness of the mass-gap ratio $\Delta M^2_{solar}/\Delta M^2_{atmospheric}$ can be derived.
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