Seesaw Right Handed Neutrino as the Sterile Neutrino for LSND

Abstract
We show that a double seesaw framework for neutrino masses with $\mu-\tau$ exchange symmetry can lead to one of the right handed seesaw partners of the light neutrinos being massless. This can play the role of a light sterile neutrino, giving a 3+1 model that explains the LSND results. We get a very economical scheme for the sterile neutrino, which makes it possible to predict the full $4\times 4$ neutrino mass matrix if CP is conserved. Once CP violation is included, effect of the LSND mass range sterile neutrino is to eliminate the lower bound on neutrinoless double beta decay rate which exists for the three neutrino case with inverted mass hierarchy.

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