Neutrino mixings and magnetic moments due to Planck scale effects

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the effect of Planck scale operators on neutrino magnetic moments. We assume that the main part of neutrino masses and mixings arise through GUT scale operators. We further assume that additional discrete symmetries make the neutrino mixing bi-maximal. Quantum gravitational (Planck scale) effects lead to an effective $SU(2)_{L}\times U(1)$ invariant dimension-5 Lagrangian involving neutrino and Higgs fields, which gives rise to additional terms in neutrino mass matrix. These additional terms can be considered to be perturbation of the GUT scale bi-maximal neutrino mass matrix. We assume that the gravitational interaction is flavour blind and we study the neutrino mixings and magnetic moments due to the physics above the GUT scale.