Is right-handed neutrino degeneracy compatible with the solar and atmospheric neutrino data?

Abstract

In light of the recent solar and atmospheric neutrino data, we investigate the possibility of having an exactly degenerate spectrum for heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos at the grand unification scale. The analysis is performed in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model with unbroken R-parity and extended with three heavy Majorana neutrino fields in order to implement the seesaw mechanism. In the absence of a Dirac-type leptonic mixing, the only source of lepton flavour violation is the right-handed neutrino sector. Inspired by GUT-motivated relations among the quark, charged-lepton and Dirac neutrino Yukawa coupling matrices, and after the inclusion of the radiative effects, we determine the effective neutrino mass matrix at the electroweak scale. Using then the latest global analyses of the solar and atmospheric data at 99% C.L., we conclude that, within this framework, the only solar solutions compatible with the experimental data are the LOW and LMA solutions, being the latter the most favoured one. At 90% C.L., only the LMA solution is allowed.

Some misprints corrected and few references updated. Final version to appear in JHEP

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