Neutrino masses from new seesaw models: Low-scale variants and phenomenological implications

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Hauptverfasser: Giarnetti, Alessio, Herrero-Garcia, Juan, Marciano, Simone, Meloni, Davide, Vatsyayan, Drona
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author Giarnetti, Alessio
Herrero-Garcia, Juan
Marciano, Simone
Meloni, Davide
Vatsyayan, Drona
author_facet Giarnetti, Alessio
Herrero-Garcia, Juan
Marciano, Simone
Meloni, Davide
Vatsyayan, Drona
contents With just the Standard Model Higgs doublet, there are only three types of seesaw models that generate light Majorana neutrino masses at tree level after electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking. However, if there exist additional TeV scalars acquiring vacuum expectation values, coupled with heavier fermionic multiplets, several new seesaw models become possible. These new seesaws are the primary focus of this study and correspond to the tree-level ultraviolet completions of the effective operators studied in a companion publication. We are interested in the genuine cases, in which the standard seesaw contributions are absent. In addition to the tree-level generation of neutrino masses, we also consider the one-loop contributions. Furthermore, we construct low-energy versions that exhibit a very rich phenomenology. Specifically, we scrutinise the generation of dimension-6 operators and explore their implications, including non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, non-universal $Z-$boson interactions, and lepton flavor violation. Finally, we provide (Generalised) Scotogenic-like variants that incorporate viable dark matter candidates.
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spellingShingle Neutrino masses from new seesaw models: Low-scale variants and phenomenological implications
Giarnetti, Alessio
Herrero-Garcia, Juan
Marciano, Simone
Meloni, Davide
Vatsyayan, Drona
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
With just the Standard Model Higgs doublet, there are only three types of seesaw models that generate light Majorana neutrino masses at tree level after electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking. However, if there exist additional TeV scalars acquiring vacuum expectation values, coupled with heavier fermionic multiplets, several new seesaw models become possible. These new seesaws are the primary focus of this study and correspond to the tree-level ultraviolet completions of the effective operators studied in a companion publication. We are interested in the genuine cases, in which the standard seesaw contributions are absent. In addition to the tree-level generation of neutrino masses, we also consider the one-loop contributions. Furthermore, we construct low-energy versions that exhibit a very rich phenomenology. Specifically, we scrutinise the generation of dimension-6 operators and explore their implications, including non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, non-universal $Z-$boson interactions, and lepton flavor violation. Finally, we provide (Generalised) Scotogenic-like variants that incorporate viable dark matter candidates.
title Neutrino masses from new seesaw models: Low-scale variants and phenomenological implications
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14119