Trimaximal Mixing Patterns Meet the First JUNO Result

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how recent JUNO measurements impact trimaximal neutrino mixing patterns, showing RG effects can reconcile models with data, but some variants are strongly constrained or ruled out by experimental limits.

Contribution

It evaluates the compatibility of TM1 and TM2 mixing patterns with JUNO results and explores RG corrections, providing updated constraints on these models in both Majorana and Dirac neutrino scenarios.

Findings

RG corrections can align TM patterns with JUNO data for quasi-degenerate neutrinos.

TM2 pattern with Majorana neutrinos is essentially ruled out by neutrinoless double beta decay limits.

TM1 pattern remains consistent with current experimental bounds, including beta decay and KATRIN limits.

Abstract

The JUNO experiment has recently released its first measurement results based on 59.1 days of data, achieving unprecedented precision in measuring the lepton mixing angle $\theta_{12}$. This significant improvement places stringent constraints on certain neutrino mass models and flavor mixing patterns. In this work, we examine the impact of the latest JUNO results on the two trimaximal (i.e., TM1 and TM2) mixing patterns. They are two well-motivated variants of the tri-bimaximal mixing pattern and predict specific correlations between $\theta_{12}$ and $\theta_{13}$. After taking into account the first JUNO results, the TM1 mixing pattern sits on the edge of the experimentally allowed $1\sigma$ region, while the TM2 mixing pattern lies outside the $3\sigma$ region. To reconcile these TM mixing patterns with the latest experimental data, we further investigate the renormalization group (RG) running effects on them in the both Majorana and Dirac neutrino cases. Our analytical and numerical results show that RG corrections can bring the two TM mixing patterns into excellent agreement with the latest JUNO data if neutrino masses are quasi-degenerate. However, the Majorana case faces severe constraints from neutrinoless double beta decay limits, and particularly, the TM2 mixing pattern with Majorana neutrinos has been essentially ruled out. In the Dirac case, the TM1 mixing pattern is fully consistent with current data including beta decay results, whereas the TM2 pattern is strongly constrained by the KATRIN limit and even could be largely ruled out if the KATRIN experiment reaches its final sensitivity without any discovery. Future high-precision measurements of lepton mixing parameters and absolute neutrino masses in both oscillation and non-oscillation experiments will provide decisive tests of these mixing patterns.