Deviations from tribimaximal neutrino mixing using a model with Δ(27) symmetry

Abstract

We present a model of neutrino mixing based on the flavor group Δ(27) in order to account for the observation of a nonzero reactor mixing angle (θ13). The model provides a common flavor structure for the charged-lepton and the neutrino sectors, giving their mass matrices a "circulant-plus-diagonal" form. Mass matrices of this form readily lead to mixing patterns with realistic deviations from tribimaximal mixing, including nonzero θ13. With the parameters constrained by existing measurements, our model predicts an inverted neutrino mass hierarchy. We obtain two distinct sets of solutions in which the atmospheric mixing angle lies in the first and the second octants. The first (second) octant solution predicts the lightest neutrino mass, m3~29 meV (m3~65 meV ) and the CP phase, [Formula: see text], offering the possibility of large observable CP violating effects in future experiments.