Neutrino flavor mixing with approximate $\mu$-$\tau$ symmetry within the low-scale minimal linear seesaw model

Abstract

Neutrino flavor mixing is explained within the recently proposed low-scale minimal linear seesaw model of neutrino mass generation, a variant of the standard linear seesaw led by a Dirac pair of extra sterile neutrinos which is odd under a discrete $Z_2$ symmetry and has a mass at or below the GeV scale. The tri-bimaximal mixing and its deviations are derived straightforwardly on the basis of the symmetry between $\mu$ and $\tau$ flavors, without introducing non-abelian discrete flavor symmetries in the first place.