Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-12-30
Phys.Lett.B678:317-321,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 4 figures. v2: Discussion of the lepton number violating case corrected; References added
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.06.040
We analyze a scenario where the right-handed neutrinos make part of a strongly coupled conformal field theory and acquire an anomalous dimension \gamma<1 at a large scale \Lambda. Their Yukawa couplings to the Higgs become irrelevant at the fixed point and they are suppressed at low scales giving rise naturally to a small (sub-meV) Dirac neutrino mass which breaks the conformal invariance. We derive an upper bound on \gamma from loop-induced flavor changing neutral currents. Neutrino Yukawa couplings can be sizable at electroweak scales and therefore the invisible decay of the Higgs in the neutrino channel can be comparable to the c\bar c and \tau\bar\tau modes and predict interesting Higgs phenomenology. If lepton number is violated in the conformal theory an irrelevant Majorana mass operator for right-handed neutrinos appears for \gamma>1/2 giving rise to an inverse see-saw mechanism. In this case light sterile neutrinos do appear and neutrino oscillation experiments are able to probe our model.
Gersdorff Gero von
Quiros Mariano
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