Investigation of a kind of neutrino mass matrix

Abstract

We carry out diagonalization of a kind of Majorana neutrino mass matrix $M=M_\nu M_\nu^\dagger$ of which Real part and Imaginary part are commutative. For the kind of matrix M, it is shown in a model-independent way that $\delta = \pm\pi/2$ which implies the maximal strength of CP violation in neutrino oscillations and atmospherical mixing angle would be in the ranges, $\pi/4 < \theta_{23} < 3\pi/4$, or $-3\pi/4<\theta_{23} < - \pi/4$. It is shown that the kind of Hermitian Majorana neutrino mass matrix M has only five real parameters and furthermore, only one free real parameter (A or D) if using the measured values of three mixing angles and mass squared differences as inputs.