Breaking tri-bimaximal mixing and large _13

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Abstract: The long baseline neutrino experiment, T2K, and the reactor experiment, Double Chooz will soon present new data. If we expect sinheta13 to be 0.1-0.2, which is close to the present experimental upper bound, we should not persist in the paradigm of the tri-bimaximal mixing. We discuss breaking the tri-bimaximal mixing by adding a simple mass matrix, which could be derived from some non-Abelian discrete symmetries. It is found that sinheta13=0.10.2 is expected in our model independent analysis of the generalized mass matrix for the normal or inverted hierarchical neutrino mass spectrum. On the other hand, sin2heta23 and sin2heta12 are expected to be not far from 1/2 and 1/3, respectively. As a typical example, we also discuss the A4 flavor model with the 1 and 1' flavons, which break the tri-bimaximal mixing considerably. In this modified version of the Altarelli and Feruglio model, sinheta13 is predicted to be around 0.15 in the case of the normal hierarchical neutrino masses m3ggm2,m1, and 0.2 in the case of the inverted hierarchy m3llm2,m1. The form of the neutrino mass matrix looks rather interesting --- it is suggestive of other discrete symmetries as well.




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