Comparing trimaximal mixing and its variants with deviations from tri-bimaximal mixing

We analyze in detail the predictions of “trimaximal” neutrino mixing, which is defined by a mixing matrix with identical second column elements. This column is therefore identical to the second column in the case of tri-bimaximal mixing. We also generalize trimaximal mixing by assuming that the other rows and columns of the mixing matrix individually can have the same forms as for tri-bimaximal mixing. The phenomenology of these alternative scenarios and their mixing angle and CP phase correlations are studied. We emphasize how trimaximal mixing scenarios can be distinguished experimentally from broken tri-bimaximal mixing.