Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1992-05-13
Phys.Rev. D46 (1992) 3000-3007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
16 pages, PRL-TH/92-10
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3000
Neutrino decay in the minimal seesaw model containing three right handed neutrinos and a complex $SU(2)\times U(1)$ singlet Higgs in addition to the standard model fields is considered. A global horizontal symmetry $U(1)_H$ is imposed, which on spontaneous breaking gives rise to a Goldstone boson. This symmetry is chosen in a way that makes a) the contribution of heavy ($\leq$ MeV) majorana neutrinos to the neutrinoless double beta decay amplitude vanish and b) allows the heavy neutrino to decay to a lighter neutrino and the Goldstone boson. It is shown that this decay can occur at a rate much faster than in the original Majoron model even if one does not introduce any additional Higgs fields as is done in the literature. Possibility of describing the 17 keV neutrino in this minimal seesaw model is investigated. While most of the cosmological and astrophysical constraints on the 17 keV neutrino can be satisfied in this model, the laboratory limits coming from the neutrino oscillations cannot be easily met. An extension which removes this inadequacy and offers a consistent description of the 17 keV neutrino is discussed.
Joshipura Anjans S.
Rindani Saurabh D.
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