scholarly journals LHC signatures of sterile neutrinos in a minimal radiative extended seesaw framework

Author(s):  
Sudhanwa Patra ◽  
Utkarsh Patel ◽  
Purushottam Sahu

The presence of small neutrino masses and flavour mixings can be accounted for naturally in various models about extensions of the standard model, particularly in the seesaw mechanism models. In this work, we present a minimally extended seesaw framework with two right-handed neutrinos, where the active neutrino masses are derived in the radiative regime. Using the framework it can be shown that within certain mass limits, the light neutrino mass term can approach a form that is similar to its form under type-I seesaw mechanism. Apart from this, we show that the decay width of right-handed neutrinos (produced through the decay of [Formula: see text] boson in a particle collider) is short enough to cause a sufficiently long lifetime for the particles, thus ensuring an observable displacement in the LHC between the production and decay vertices. We comment on the fact that these displaced vertex signatures thus can serve as a means to verify the existence of these right-handed neutrinos in future experiments. Lastly, we line up the possibility of our future work where the vertex signatures of particles greater than the mass of [Formula: see text] boson can be worked upon.

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. 1750093 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Montero ◽  
V. Pleitez ◽  
B. L. Sánchez-Vega ◽  
M. C. Rodriguez

We build a supersymmetric version with [Formula: see text] gauge symmetry, where [Formula: see text] is a new charge and [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are the usual baryonic and leptonic numbers. The model has three right-handed neutrinos with identical [Formula: see text] charges, and can accommodate all fermion masses at the tree level. In particular, the type I seesaw mechanism is implemented for the generation of the active neutrino masses. We obtain the mass spectra of all sectors and for the scalar one we also give the flat directions allowed by the model.


2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 1740007 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Bhupal Dev ◽  
Rabindra N. Mohapatra ◽  
Yongchao Zhang

We show that in a class of non-supersymmetric left–right extensions of the Standard Model (SM), the lightest right-handed neutrino (RHN) can play the role of thermal Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe for a wide mass range from TeV to PeV. Our model is based on the gauge group [Formula: see text] in which a heavy copy of the SM fermions is introduced and the stability of the RHN DM is guaranteed by an automatic [Formula: see text] symmetry present in the leptonic sector. In such models, the active neutrino masses are obtained via the type-II seesaw mechanism. We find a lower bound on the RHN DM mass of order TeV from relic density constraints, as well as a unitarity upper bound in the multi-TeV to PeV scale, depending on the entropy dilution factor. The RHN DM could be made long-lived by soft-breaking of the [Formula: see text] symmetry and provides a concrete example of decaying DM interpretation of the PeV neutrinos observed at IceCube.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (21) ◽  
pp. 2050117
Author(s):  
Heng-Yu Chen ◽  
Ilia Gogoladze ◽  
Shan Hu ◽  
Tianjun Li ◽  
Lina Wu

We present a class of nonsupersymmetric models in which the so-called critical Higgs inflation [Formula: see text] can be naturally realized without using specific values for Higgs and top quark masses. In these scenarios, the Standard Model (SM) vacuum stability problem, gauge coupling unification, neutrino mass generation and Higgs inflation mechanism are linked to each other. We adopt in our models Type I seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses. An appropriate choice of the Type I seesaw scale allows us to have an arbitrarily small but positive value of SM Higgs quartic coupling around the inflation scale. We present a few benchmark points where we show that the scalar spectral indices are around 0.9626 and 0.9685 for the number of [Formula: see text]-folding [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively. The tensor-to-scalar ratios are of the order of [Formula: see text]. The running of the scalar spectral index is negative and is of the order of [Formula: see text].


2021 ◽  
pp. 2150184
Author(s):  
V. V. Vien ◽  
H. N. Long ◽  
D. P. Khoi

In this paper, we study a non-renormalizable [Formula: see text] extension of the Standard Model with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] symmetries accommodating the most recent neutrino data within the type-I seesaw mechanism. The two squared mass differences and three mixing angles can get the best-fit values while the leptonic Dirac CP phase is in [Formula: see text] range of the best-fit values for both normal and inverted orderings. The sum of active neutrino mass and the effective neutrino masses are, respectively, predicted to be [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for normal ordering while [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for inverted ordering, which are well consistent with the current experimental constraints.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Heinemeyer ◽  
J. Hernandez-Garcia ◽  
M. J. Herrero ◽  
X. Marcano ◽  
A. M. Rodriguez-Sanchez

We study the radiative corrections to the mass of the lightest Higgs boson of the MSSM from three generations of Majorana neutrinos and sneutrinos. The spectrum of the MSSM is augmented by three right handed neutrinos and their supersymmetric partners. A seesaw mechanism of type I is used to generate the physical neutrino masses and oscillations that we require to be in agreement with present neutrino data. We present a full one-loop computation of these Higgs mass corrections and analyze in full detail their numerical size in terms of both the MSSM and the new (s)neutrino parameters. A critical discussion on the different possible renormalization schemes and their implications, in particular concerning decoupling, is included.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjan S. Joshipura ◽  
Ketan M. Patel

Abstract Possibility of a Right-Handed (RH) neutrino being a Goldstone fermion of a spontaneously broken global U(1) symmetry in a supersymmetric theory is considered. This fermion obtains mass from the supergravity effects leading to a RH neutrino at the electroweak scale with a mass similar to the gravitino mass. A prototype model realizing this scenario contains just three gauge singlet superfields needed for the type I seesaw mechanism. Masses of the other two neutrinos are determined by the U(1) breaking scale which too can be around the electroweak scale. Light neutrinos obtain their masses in this scenario through (a) mixing with the RH neutrinos (type I seesaw), (b) mixing with neutralinos (R-parity breaking), (c) indirectly through mixing of the RH neutrinos with neutralinos, and (d) radiative corrections. All these contributions are described by the same set of a small number of underlying parameters and provide a very constrained and predictive framework for the neutrino masses which is investigated in detail for various choices of U(1) symmetries. It is found that flavour independent U(1) symmetries cannot describe neutrino masses if the soft supersymmetry breaking terms are flavour universal and one needs to consider flavour dependent symmetries. Considering a particular example of Lμ− Lτ symmetry, it is shown that viable neutrino masses and mixing can be obtained without introducing any flavour violation in the soft sector. The leptonic couplings of Majoron are worked out in the model and shown to be consistent with various laboratory, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. The neutrino data allows sizeable couplings between the RH neutrinos and Higgsinos which can be used to probe the pseudo-Goldstone fermion at colliders through its displaced decay vertex.


2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sravan Kumar ◽  
Paulo Vargas Moniz

AbstractIn this paper, we generalize Coleman–Weinberg (CW) inflation in grand unified theories (GUTs) such as $$\text {SU}(5)$$SU(5) and $$\text {SO}(10)$$SO(10) by means of considering two complex singlet fields with conformal invariance. In this framework, inflation emerges from a spontaneously broken conformal symmetry. The GUT symmetry implies a potential with a CW form, as a consequence of radiative corrections. The conformal symmetry flattens the above VEV branch of the CW potential to a Starobinsky plateau. As a result, we obtain $$n_{s}\sim 1-\frac{2}{N}$$ns∼1-2N and $$r\sim \frac{12}{N^2}$$r∼12N2 for $$N\sim $$N∼ 50–60 e-foldings. Furthermore, this framework allow us to estimate the proton lifetime as $$\tau _{p}\lesssim 10^{40}$$τp≲1040 years, whose decay is mediated by the superheavy gauge bosons. Moreover, we implement a type I seesaw mechanism by weakly coupling the complex singlet, which carries two units of lepton number, to the three generations of singlet right handed neutrinos (RHNs). The spontaneous symmetry breaking of global lepton number amounts to the generation of neutrino masses. We also consider non-thermal leptogenesis in which the inflaton dominantly decays into heavy RHNs that sources the observed baryon asymmetry. We constrain the couplings of the inflaton field to the RHNs, which gives the reheating temperature as $$10^{6}\text { GeV}\lesssim T_{R}<10^{9}$$106GeV≲TR<109 GeV.


2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (40) ◽  
pp. 1450212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto A. Matute

An extension of the Standard Model (SM) is studied in which two right-handed (RH) neutrinos per generation are incorporated, but considering the hypothesis of the symmetry of lepton and quark contents in order to deprive the number of RH neutrinos of freedom, generate Dirac neutrinos and accommodate naturally tiny values for their masses. The high scale type-I seesaw regime is applied to the first, ordinary RH neutrino, whereas a low scale pseudo-Dirac scenario is used for the second, adulterant RH neutrino, implying that the first RH neutrino decouples at the high scale, while the second RH neutrino survives down to the low scale to pair off in a Dirac-like form with the corresponding left-handed (LH) neutrino. The small mass and couplings of this extra RH neutrino are explained by means of the statement of the symmetry of fermionic content, only regarded as a guideline to the natural choice of parameters since it is not a proper symmetry in the Lagrangian.


2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. CLARK ◽  
S. T. LOVE

The electron and muon number violating muonium–antimuonium oscillation process can proceed provided that neutrinos have nonzero masses and mix among the various generations. Modifying the Standard Model only by the inclusion of singlet right-handed neutrino fields and allowing for general neutrino masses and mixings, the leading order matrix element contributing to this process is computed. For the particularly interesting case where the neutrino masses are generated by a seesaw mechanism with a very large Majorana mass MR≫MW, it is found that both the very light and very heavy Majorana neutrinos each give comparable contributions to the oscillation time scale proportional to [Formula: see text]. Present experimental limits set by the non-observation of the oscillation process sets a lower limit on MR of roughly of order 104 GeV.


2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao H. Nam

AbstractWe propose a general flavor-independent extension of the Standard Model (SM) with the minimal particle content, based on the symmetry $$SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L\times U(1)_{Y'}\times U(1)_X\times Z_2$$ S U ( 3 ) C × S U ( 2 ) L × U ( 1 ) Y ′ × U ( 1 ) X × Z 2 . In this scenario, the charge operator is identified in terms of the charges of two U(1) gauge symmetries. The light neutrino masses are generated via Type-I seesaw mechanism only with two heavy right-handed neutrinos acquiring their Majorana masses through the $$U(1)_{Y'}\times U(1)_X$$ U ( 1 ) Y ′ × U ( 1 ) X symmetry breaking. We study various experimental constraints on the parameters of the model and investigate the phenomenology of the right-handed neutrino dark matter (DM) candidate assigned a $$Z_2$$ Z 2 -odd parity. We find that the most important constraints are the observed DM relic abundance, the current LHC limits, and the ambiguity of the SM neutral gauge boson mass.


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