Published January 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Clockwork seesaw mechanisms

  • 1. Department of Physics and IPAP, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Postech, Pohang 37673 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang 37673 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We propose new mechanisms for small neutrino masses based on clockwork mechanism. The Standard Model neutrinos and lepton number violating operators communicate through the zero mode of clockwork gears, one of the two couplings of the zero mode is exponentially suppressed by clockwork mechanism. Including all known examples for the clockwork realization of the neutrino masses, different types of models are realized depending on the profile and chirality of the zero mode fermion. Each type of realization would have phenomenologically distinctive features with the accompanying heavy neutrinos.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.057

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.057;
arXiv
arXiv:1707.07364v2;
PII
S0370269317309498;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
776
Journal Page Range
p. 222-226
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51017261
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRALITY; COUPLINGS; LEPTON NUMBER; MASS; NEUTRINOS; STANDARD MODEL
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS

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