DOUBLE THREEFOLD DEGENERACIES FOR ACTIVE AND STERILE NEUTRINOS

ERNEST MA, G. RAJASEKARAN
2001 Modern Physics Letters A  
We explore the possibility that the 3 active (doublet) neutrinos have nearly degenerate masses which are split only by the usual seesaw mechanism from 3 sterile (singlet) neutrinos in the presence of a softly broken A_4 symmetry. We take the unconventional view that the sterile neutrinos may be light, i.e. less than 1 keV, and discuss some very interesting and novel phenomenology, including a connection between the LSND neutrino data and solar neutrino oscillations.
doi:10.1142/s0217732301005679 fatcat:voi2ikyeofftnhh5redw5ewo7i