Published November 1, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Renormalization group evolution of the non-unitary operator

Creators

  • 1. Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380009 (India)

Description

Integrating out a heavy field gives rise to effective Lagrangian containing higher-dimensional operators. In the context of Type-I seesaw mechanism, integrating out the heavy right-handed neutrino field leads to unique dimension-five operator which gives the tree level neutrino mass term. Apart from these there are dimension-six operators that can have important implications. A linear combination of two such operators gives rise to the non-unitarity in the lepton mixing matrix, UPMNS. In this paper, we discuss the origin of non-unitarity at the high scale and its evolution through renormalization group running.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.06.005

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.06.005;
arXiv
arXiv:1203.5043v2;
PII
S0550-3213(12)00333-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
864
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 38-51
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44085075
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
EVOLUTION; INTERACTIONS; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; MASS; NEUTRINOS; RENORMALIZATION; UNITARITY
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FUNCTIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES

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