Connecting Leptonic Unitarity Triangle to Neutrino Oscillation

Abstract

Leptonic unitarity triangle (LUT) provides a geometric description of CP violations in the lepton-neutrino sector and is directly measurable in principle. In this work, we reveal that the angles in the LUT have definite physical meaning, and demonstrate the exact connection of the LUT to neutrino oscillations. For the first time, we prove that these leptonic angles act as phase shifts in neutrino oscillations, by shifting Δm^{2}L/2E to Δm^{2}L/2E + α, where (L, E, α) denote the baseline length, neutrino energy and corresponding angle of the LUT. Each LUT has three independent parameters and contains only partial information of the PMNS matrix. We demonstrate that the partial information in each LUT can describe the corresponding neutrino oscillation. Hence, for the first time, we uncover that any given kind of neutrino oscillations contain at most three (rather than four) independent degrees of freedom from the PMNS matrix. This may provide a cleaner way for fitting the corresponding oscillation data.

Phys.Rev.D published version. All results/conclusions un-changed. Only minor refinement to clarify the Importance of this work. (Used latest neutrino data.)

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