Simplest Neutrino Mixing from S4 Symmetry

Abstract

In 2004, two of us proposed a texture, the "Simplest" neutrino mass matrix, which predicted sin(theta13)=sqrt((2 Solar-Delta m^2)/(3 Atm-Delta m^2)) and delta_CP=90 degrees. Using today's measured values for neutrino mass-squared differences, this prediction gives sin^2(theta13)~0.086+0.003-0.006, compared with a measured value, found by averaging the results of the Daya Bay and RENO experiments, of sin^2(theta13)=0.093+0.010-0.010. Here we present a specific model based on S4 symmetry leading to this successful texture in the context of the type-1 see-saw mechanism, assuming Majorana neutrinos. In this case, slightly different predictions are obtained relating theta13 to the light neutrino masses, which are in accord with current experimental limits and testable at future experiments. Large CP asymmetries remain a generic prediction of the texture.

15 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Journal of High Energy Physics, preprint typeset in JHEP style