The binary tetrahedral group (T0) has provided the most successful flavor symmetry in understanding simultaneously the three mixing angles both for quarks in the CKM matrix and for neutrinos in the PMNS matrix. One prediction, invariant under leptonic CP violation, relates the atmospheric and reactor neutrino mixings θ32 and θ13, respectively. We study sedulously this relation using the latest neutrino data. It is natural to focus on the frustrating experimental octant ambiguity of θ32. We conclude that the flavor symmetry requires that θ32 is in the second octant θ32 > 45⃘, not in the first one θ32 < 45⃘, and eagerly await experimental confirmation of this prediction.
Atmospheric Neutrino octant from flavor symmetry
Claudio Coriano
2024-01-01
Abstract
The binary tetrahedral group (T0) has provided the most successful flavor symmetry in understanding simultaneously the three mixing angles both for quarks in the CKM matrix and for neutrinos in the PMNS matrix. One prediction, invariant under leptonic CP violation, relates the atmospheric and reactor neutrino mixings θ32 and θ13, respectively. We study sedulously this relation using the latest neutrino data. It is natural to focus on the frustrating experimental octant ambiguity of θ32. We conclude that the flavor symmetry requires that θ32 is in the second octant θ32 > 45⃘, not in the first one θ32 < 45⃘, and eagerly await experimental confirmation of this prediction.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
