Large neutrino mixing is not fixed by the seesaw mechanism's mass eigenvalues, so it must arise from additional flavor structure, and the inverse seesaw needs a fine-tuned cancellation.
Global oscillation data analysis on the $3\nu$ mixing without unitarity
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We present results of a combined analysis in neutrino oscillations without unitarity assumption in the $3\nu$ mixing picture. Constraints on neutrino mixing matrix elements are based on recent data from the reactor, solar and long-baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments. The current data are consistent with the standard $3\nu$ scheme. The precision on different matrix elements can be as good as a few percent at $3\sigma$ CL, and is mainly limited by the experimental statistical uncertainty. The $\nu_e$ related elements are the most precisely measured among all sectors with the uncertainties $<20\%$. The measured leptonic CP violation is very close to the one assuming the standard $3\nu$ mixing. The deviations on normalization and the unitarity triangle closure are confined within $\mathcal{O}(10^{-3})$, $\mathcal{O}(10^{-2})$ and $\mathcal{O}(10^{-1})$, for $\nu_e$, $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\nu_{\tau}$ sectors, respectively. We look forward to the next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments \textit{such as} DUNE, T2HK, and JUNO, especially the precise measurements on $\nu_\tau$ oscillations, to significantly improve the precision of unitarity test on the $3\nu$ mixing matrix.
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Emergent large flavor mixing from canonical and inverse seesaws?
Large neutrino mixing is not fixed by the seesaw mechanism's mass eigenvalues, so it must arise from additional flavor structure, and the inverse seesaw needs a fine-tuned cancellation.