Neutrino Parameter Space for

a Vanishing ee Element
in the Neutrino Mass Matrix

S. Dev and Sanjeev Kumar

Himachal Pradesh University

Shimla
Fundamental goal of neutrino physics:
Determination of neutrino mass matrix
The neutrino mass matrix is given by
Neutrino mass matrix is specified
by 9 physical parameters
• Three neutrino masses:
• Three mixing angles:
• Three CP-violating phases:
Dirac-Type CP-violating phase
Majorana-type CP-violating phases
Current experimental knowledge
• Two mass-squared differences:

• Two mixing angles:

(The errors are at 1, 3 standard deviations)

There exists upper bounds on the
following parameters:
• 1-3 mixing angle:

at 1 (3) standard deviations

• Absolute neutrino mass scale
(Tritium beta decay, neutrinoless double
beta decay, cosmology)
 Hopes from future experiments

• The study of CP-violation at long-baseline/

reactor experiments will provide
information on Dirac phase
• Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments
will provide constraints on Majorana phases
The ee element of the neutrino mass matrix is

This element is the function of 4 parameters:

2. The lightest neutrino mass
3. 1-3 mixing angle
4. The Majorana phase:
5. The Majorana phase:
The condition
Two constraints on 4 parameters
 Solution for a special case

• The Majorana phase is left unconstrained.

• The solution exists for one point on
the plane .
• This point will expand into a region for
non-zero 1-3 mixing.
 General Solution

• We obtain two conditions on the 4

dimensional parameter space
• The allowed parameter space is a two
dimensional region on the
plane
 The plane
The complete region
around the point

Numerical results:

(including errors in the (for the central values of

oscillation parameters) oscillation parameters)
The values of on plane

We shall travel along this line in the next slide

 The plane (NH)

The central
First graph was line of the
obtained in this way last graph
 The case :
We obtain
• independently of alpha! (there are only two
eigenvalues and one Majorana phase)
• incompatible with CHOOZ bound
disallowed at 2.3 standard deviations
This case was found to be allowed in an analysis
by Xing [Phys. Rev. D 65, 092007 (2002)]
and disallowed in an analysis by Chauhan et
el. [Phys. Rev. D 73, 053003 (2006)].
The plane (IH)

Disallowed
by CHOOZ bound
 Neutrino mass matrix with a
texture zero at the ee entry
NH IH

Hierarchical QD large
mass spectrum spectrum 1-3 mixing

small large
1-3 mixing 1-3 mixing
 Conclusions

should be one quadrant behind

The case is disallowed

at 2.3 standard deviations
 Conclusions
Neutrino mass matrices with a texture zero
at the ee entry naturally lead to NH and
small 1-3 mixing.

Therefore, the 2-Texture Zero

mass matrices with vanishing ee entry
should also give hierarchical mass spectrum
with normal ordering.