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Further swampland constraint on Dirac Neutrino

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recent studies on swampland conjectures (e.g. non-SUSY AdS conjecture or AdS distance conjecture) predict that the (lightest) neutrino must be Dirac and the mass must be cosmologically small m<cΛcc1/410 meVm < c \Lambda^{1/4}_{\text{cc}}\sim 10 \ \text{meV}. The Dirac neutrino naturally accompanies a U(1)U(1) symmetry that can be embedded in the anomaly-free U(1)BLU(1)_{B-L} global symmetry of the standard model. We point out that the swampland conjectures applied to a circle compactification with the U(1)U(1) symmetry twisting lead to further constraints. In particular, the U(1)U(1) symmetry must be broken down to Z4\mathbb{Z}_4,Z8\mathbb{Z}_8 or Z10\mathbb{Z}_{10} in the case of normal hierarchy, and Z4\mathbb{Z}_4 in the case of inverted hierarchy, providing evidence for the absence of continuous global symmetry in quantum gravity. We also predict a more constrained upper bound of the neutrino mass for each case.

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@article{arxiv.2203.07587,
  title  = {Further swampland constraint on Dirac Neutrino},
  author = {Taiga Harada and Yu Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07587},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, main results appeared in master's thesis of the first author

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