1998/04/17 by J P Bowes, J. P. Bowes, Raymond R. Volkas +1 · 27 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Higgs boson #Measurements of neutrino speed #Mixing (physics) #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino oscillation #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Seesaw mechanism #Seesaw molecular geometry #Solar neutrino #Solar neutrino problem #Sterile neutrino #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/24/7/007
published in Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics 24(7), 1249-1260 (IOP Publishing) · 23 pages, no figures, ReVTeX. Original version written in March 1997; revised and updated in March 1998. To appear in J Phys G
arxiv created 1998/04/17 · openalex publication_date 1998/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We account for the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems by introducing maximal mixing between conventional neutrinos and sterile neutrino partners. We achieve this by invoking a seesaw-like mechanism which not only provides us with maximally mixed neutrino/sterile-neutrino mass eigenstates but also accounts for the relative suppression of the neutrino masses with the charged fermion masses. In obtaining such an extended seesaw mechanism we are required to introduce a new U (1) global symmetry together with an extended Higgs sector.