Published October 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Model of neutrino effective masses

  • 1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Institute of Physics and Electronics, VAST, 10 Dao-Tan, Hanoi (Viet Nam)
  • 3. Theory Devision, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 4. LAPTH, 9 Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex France (France)

Description

It is shown that an effective (nonrenormalizable) coupling of lepton multiplets to scalar triplets in the 331 model with sterile/exotic neutrinos, can be a good way for generating neutrino masses of different types. The method is simple and avoids radiative/loop calculations which, sometimes, are long and complicated. Basing on some astrophysical arguments it is also stated that the scale of SU(3)L symmetry breaking is at TeV scale, in agreement with earlier investigations. Or equivalently, starting from this symmetry breaking scale we could have sterile/exotic neutrinos with mass of a few keV's which could be used to explain several astrophysical and cosmological puzzles, such as the dark matter, the fast motion of the observed pulsars, the re-ionization of the Universe, etc

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 077701-077701.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38039167
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COUPLING; IONIZATION; KEV RANGE; NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PULSARS; REST MASS; SCALARS; SU-3 GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEV RANGE; TRIPLETS; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; LIE GROUPS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; MULTIPLETS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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