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eV Seesaw with Four Generations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-02-21 v2

Abstract

We extend the eV seesaw scenario to four lepton generations. The LSND anomaly is taken as the right-handed seesaw scale, i.e. m_R ~ eV. The fourth generation then gives a heavy pseudo-Dirac neutrino which largely decouples from other generations, and is relatively stable. One effectively has a 3+3 solution to the LSND anomaly, where we illustrate with numerical solutions. Our study indicates that the third mixing angle sin^2(theta13) is likely less than 0.01.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512278,
  title  = {eV Seesaw with Four Generations},
  author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Andrea Soddu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512278},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Some minor corrections, 3 updated figures. Results and conclusions are mildly changed. To appear in Phys. Lett. B