Prediction of LSND effect as a "sterile" perturbation of the bimaximal texture for three active neutrinos

Abstract

As a contribution to the hypothesis of mixing of three active neutrinos with, at least, one sterile neutrino, we report on a simple $4\times4$ texture whose $3\times3$ part arises from the popular bimaximal texture for three active neutrinos $ν_e,ν_μ,ν_τ$, where $c_{12}=1/\sqrt{2} = s_{12}$, $c_{23} = 1/\sqrt{2} = s_{23}$ and $s_{13} = 0$. Such a $3\times 3$ bimaximal texture is perturbed through a rotation in the 14 plane, where $ν_4$ is the extra neutrino mass state induced by the sterile neutrino $ν_s$ which becomes responsible for the LSND effect. Then, with $m^2_1 \simeq m^2_2$ we predict that $\sin^2 2θ_{\rm atm} = {1/2}(1+ c^2_{14}) \sim 0.95$ and $\sin^2 2θ_{\rm LSND} = {1/2}s^4_{14} \sim 5\times10^{-3}$, and in addition $Δm^2_{\rm atm} = Δm^2_{32}$ and $Δm^2_{\rm LSND} = |Δm^2_{41}|$, where $c^2_{14} = \sin^2 2θ_{\rm sol} \sim 0.9$ and $Δm^2_{21} = Δm^2_{\rm sol} \sim 10^{-7} {\rm eV}^2$ if e.g. the LOW solar solution is applied.