Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-07-04
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
10 pages, stability of the potential verified, accepted for publication in Physical review D
Scientific paper
The common lore in the literature of neutrino mass generation is that the canonical see-saw mechanism beautifully offers an explanation for the tiny neutrino mass but at the cost of introducing right-handed neutrinos at a scale that is out of range for the current experiments. The inverse see-saw mechanism is an interesting alternative to the canonical one once it leads to tiny neutrino masses with the advantage of being testable at TeV scale. However, this last mechanism suffers from an issue of naturalness concerning the scale responsible for such small masses, namely, the parameter $\mu$ that is related to lepton number violation and is supposed to be at the keV scale, much lower than the electroweak one. However, no theoretical framework was built that offers an explanation for obtaining this specific scale. In this work we propose a variation of the inverse see-saw mechanism by assuming a minimal scalar and fermionic set of singlet fields, along with a $Z_5\otimes Z_2$ symmetry, that allows a dynamical explanation for the smallness of $\mu$, recovering the neat canonical see-saw formula and with right-handed (RH) neutrinos free to be at the electroweak scale, thus testable at LHC and current neutrino experiments.
da Silva S. Rodrigues P.
Dias Alex G.
Pires A. de C. S.
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