A Natural Framework for Solar and 17 keV Neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
Motivated by recent experimental claims for the existence of a 17 keV neutrino and by the solar neutrino problem, we construct a class of models which contain in their low-energy spectrum a single light sterile neutrino and one or more Nambu-Goldstone bosons. In these models the required pattern of breaking of lepton-number symmetry takes place near the electroweak scale and all mass heirarchies are technically natural. The models are compatible with all cosmological and astrophysical constraints, and can solve the solar neutrino problem via either the MSW effect or vacuum oscillations. The deficit in atmospheric muon neutrinos seen in the Kamiokande and IMB detectors can also be explained in these models.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9203202,
title = {A Natural Framework for Solar and 17 keV Neutrinos},
author = {C. P. Burgess and J. Cline and Markus Luty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9203202},
year = {2009}
}
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23 pages