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Duality in Left-Right Symmetric Seesaw Mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider type I+II seesaw mechanism, where the exchanges of both right-handed neutrinos and isotriplet Higgs bosons contribute to the neutrino mass. Working in the left-right symmetric framework and assuming the mass matrix of light neutrinos mνm_\nu and the Dirac-type Yukawa couplings to be known, we find the triplet Yukawa coupling matrix ff, which carries the information about the masses and mixing of the right-handed neutrinos. We show that in this case there exists a duality: for any solution ff, there is a dual solution f^=mν/vLf\hat{f}=m_\nu/v_L-f, where vLv_L is the VEV of the triplet Higgs. Thus, unlike in pure type I (II) seesaw, there is no unique allowed structure for the matrix ff. For nn lepton generations the number of solutions is 2n2^n. We develop an exact analytic method of solving the seesaw non-linear matrix equation for ff.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0509299,
  title  = {Duality in Left-Right Symmetric Seesaw Mechanism},
  author = {E. Kh. Akhmedov and M. Frigerio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0509299},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, revtex, small clarifications added, title changed to match published version