A Compromise between Neutrino Masses and Collider Signatures in the Type-II Seesaw Model

Details A Compromise between Neutrino Masses and Collider Signatures in the Type-II Seesaw Model A Compromise between Neutrino Masses and Collider Signatures in the Type-II Seesaw Model

2007-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1069v1

Phys.Rev.D77:016001,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

RevTeX 19 pages, no figures

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10.1103/PhysRevD.77.016001

A natural extension of the standard $SU(2)_{\rm L} \times U(1)_{\rm Y}$ gauge model to accommodate massive neutrinos is to introduce one Higgs triplet and three right-handed Majorana neutrinos, leading to a $6\times 6$ neutrino mass matrix which contains three $3\times 3$ sub-matrices $M_{\rm L}$, $M_{\rm D}$ and $M_{\rm R}$. We show that three light Majorana neutrinos (i.e., the mass eigenstates of $\nu_e$, $\nu_\mu$ and $\nu_\tau$) are exactly massless in this model, if and only if $M_{\rm L} = M_{\rm D} M_{\rm R}^{-1} M_{\rm D}^T$ exactly holds. This no-go theorem implies that small but non-vanishing neutrino masses may result from a significant but incomplete cancellation between $M_{\rm L}$ and $M_{\rm D} M_{\rm R}^{-1} M_{\rm D}^T$ terms in the Type-II seesaw formula, provided three right-handed Majorana neutrinos are of ${\cal O}(1)$ TeV and experimentally detectable at the LHC. We propose three simple Type-II seesaw scenarios with the $A_4 \times U(1)_{\rm X}$ flavor symmetry to interpret the observed neutrino mass spectrum and neutrino mixing pattern. Such a TeV-scale neutrino model can be tested in two complementary ways: (1) searching for possible collider signatures of lepton number violation induced by the right-handed Majorana neutrinos and doubly-charged Higgs particles; and (2) searching for possible consequences of unitarity violation of the $3\times 3$ neutrino mixing matrix in the future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.

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