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arxiv: hep-ph/0501039 · v1 · submitted 2005-01-07 · ✦ hep-ph

See-Saw Energy Scale and the LSND Anomaly

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The most general, renormalizable Lagrangian that includes massive neutrinos contains ``right-handed neutrino'' Majorana masses of order M. While there are prejudices in favor of M much larger than the weak scale, virtually nothing is known about the magnitude of M. I argue that the LSND anomaly provides, currently, the only experimental hint: M around 1 eV. If this is the case, the LSND mixing angles are functions of the active neutrino masses and mixing and, remarkably, adequate fits to all data can be naturally obtained. I also discuss consequences of this ``eV-seesaw'' for supernova neutrino oscillations, tritium beta-decay, neutrinoless double-beta decay, and cosmology.

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