Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-12-28
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
33 pages, 6 figures, discussion of 5D singlet neutrino added
Scientific paper
In extensions of the standard model with a heavy fourth generation one important question is what makes the fourth-generation lepton sector, particularly the neutrinos, so different from the lighter three generations. We study this question in the context of models of electroweak symmetry breaking in warped extra dimensions, where the flavor hierarchy is generated by the localization of the zero-mode fermions in the extra dimension. In this setup the Higgs sector is localized near the infrared brane, whereas the Majorana mass term is localized at the ultraviolet brane. As a result, light neutrinos are almost entirely Majorana particles, whereas the fourth generation neutrino is mostly a Dirac fermion. We show that it is possible to obtain heavy fourth-generation leptons in regions of parameter space where the light neutrino masses and mixings are compatible with observation. We study the impact of these bounds, as well as the ones from lepton flavor violation, on the phenomenology of these models.
Burdman Gustavo
Matheus Ricardo D.
Rold Leandro Da
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