Bilarge neutrino mixing andμτpermutation symmetry for two-loop radiative mechanism

Abstract
The presence of approximate electron number conservation and μτ permutation symmetry of S2 is shown to naturally provide bilarge neutrino mixing. First, the bimaximal neutrino mixing together with Ue3=0 is guaranteed to appear owing to S2, and then, the bilarge neutrino mixing together with |Ue3|1 arises as a result of a tiny violation of S2. The observed mass hierarchy of Δm2 Δmatm2 is subject to another tiny violation of the electron number conservation. This scenario is realized in a specific model based on SU(3)L×U(1)N with two-loop radiative mechanism for neutrino masses. The radiative effects from heavy leptons contained in lepton triplets generate the bimaximal structure, and those from charged leptons, which break S2, generate the bilarge structure together with |Ue3|1. To suppress dangerous flavor-changing neutral current interactions due to Higgs exchanges especially for quarks, this S2 symmetry is extended to a discrete Z8 symmetry, which also ensures the absence of a one-loop radiative mechanism.
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