3+2 neutrinos in a see-saw variation
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✦ hep-ph
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massranksee-sawdifferencesneutrinoneutrinossmalladditionally
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If the sterile neutrino mass matrix in an otherwise conventional see-saw model has a rank less than the number of flavors, it is possible to produce pseudo-Dirac neutrinos. For the rank 1 case, 3+2 scenarios devolve naturally, as we show by example. Additionally, we find that the lower rank see-saw suppresses some mass differences, so that small mass differences do not require that the individual masses of each neutrino must also be small.
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