Maximal Neutrino Mixing and Maximal CP Violation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a phenomenological model explaining lepton mixing and CP violation, predicting nearly bi-maximal mixing and significant CP violation effects observable in long-baseline neutrino experiments.

Contribution

It presents a new model based on flavor democracy and neutrino degeneracy that naturally results in bi-maximal mixing and sizable CP violation effects.

Findings

Nearly bi-maximal flavor mixing pattern emerges from the model.

CP violation strength can be as large as one percent.

Predicts observable asymmetries in long-baseline neutrino experiments.

Abstract

We propose a phenomenological model of lepton mixing and CP violation based on the flavor democracy of charge leptons and the mass degeneracy of neutrinos. A nearly bi-maximal flavor mixing pattern, which is favored by current data on atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations, emerges naturally from this model after explicit symmetry breaking. The rephasing-invariant strength of CP or T violation can be as large as one percent, leading to significant probability asymmetries between \nu_\mu \to \nu_e and \bar{\nu}_\mu \to \bar{\nu}_e (or \nu_e \to \nu_\mu) transitions in the long-baseline neutrino experiments.