Seesaw induced electroweak scale, the hierarchy problem and sub-eV neutrino masses

Details Seesaw induced electroweak scale, the hierarchy problem and sub-eV neutrino masses Seesaw induced electroweak scale, the hierarchy problem and sub-eV neutrino masses

2004-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0408191v2

Eur.Phys.J.C45:219-225,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

latex, 25 pages, no figures. Version 2 is a shorter version (as accepted in EPJC), not including the discussion on the heavy s

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s2005-02403-x

We describe a model for the scalar sector where all interactions occur either at an ultra-high scale L_U ~ 10^{16}-10^{19} GeV or at an intermediate scale L_I ~ 10^{9}-10^{11} GeV. The interaction of physics on these two scales results in an SU(2) Higgs condensate at the electroweak (EW) scale, L_{EW}, through a seesaw-like Higgs mechanism, L_{EW} ~ L_I^2/L_U, while the breaking of the SM SU(2)XU(1) gauge symmetry occurs at the intermediate scale L_I. The EW scale is, therefore, not fundamental but is naturally generated in terms of ultra-high energy phenomena and so the hierarchy problem is alleviated. We show that the class of such ``seesaw Higgs'' models predict the existence of sub-eV neutrino masses which are generated through a ``two-step'' seesaw mechanism in terms of the same two ultra-high scales: m_nu ~ L_I^4/L_U^3 ~ L_{EW}^2/L_U. The neutrinos can be either Dirac or Majorana, depending on the structure of the scalar potential. We also show that our seesaw Higgs model can be naturally embedded in theories with tiny extra dimensions of size R ~ 1/L_U ~ 10^{-16} fm, where the seesaw induced EW scale arises from a violation of a symmetry at a distant brane; in particular, in the scenario presented there are 7 tiny extra dimensions.

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