Constraints on Neutrino Mixing
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We explore the implications of imposing the constraint that two neutrino flavors (which for definiteness we take to be νμ and ντ ) are similarly coupled to the mass basis in addition to the unitarity constraints. We allow three active and an arbitrary number of sterile neutrinos. We show that in this scheme one of the mass eigenstates decouples from the problem, reducing the dimension of the flavor space by one.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999