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Consistency of the triplet seesaw model revisited

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-10-28 v2

Abstract

Adding a scalar triplet to the Standard Model is one of the simplest ways of giving mass to neutrinos, providing at the same time a mechanism to stabilize the theory's vacuum. In this paper, we revisit these aspects of the type-II seesaw model pointing out that the bounded-from-below conditions for the scalar potential in use in the literature are not correct. We discuss some scenarios where the correction can be significant and sketch the typical scalar boson profile expected by consistency.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02323,
  title  = {Consistency of the triplet seesaw model revisited},
  author = {Cesar Bonilla and Renato M. Fonseca and José W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02323},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures, references added, minor changes to match the published version