English

Combining type I and type II seesaw mechanisms in the minimal 3-3-1 model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v1

Abstract

The minimal 3-3-1 model is perturbative until energies around 4-5TeV, posing a challenge to generate neutrino masses at eV scale, mainly if one aims to take advantage of the seesaw mechanism. As a means to circumvent this problem we propose a modification of the model such that it accommodates the type I and type II seesaw mechanisms altogether. We show that the conjunction of both mechanisms yield a neutrino mass expression suppressed by a high power of the cutoff scale, M5M^5, in its denominator. With such a suppression term we naturally obtain neutrino masses at eV scale when MM is around few TeV. We also investigate the size of lepton flavor violation through the process μeγ\mu \rightarrow e\gamma.

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@article{arxiv.1206.5741,
  title  = {Combining type I and type II seesaw mechanisms in the minimal 3-3-1 model},
  author = {W. Caetano and D. Cogollo and C. A. de S. Pires and P. S. Rodrigues da Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5741},
  year   = {2013}
}

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about 15 pages, no figures