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High-dimensional neutrino masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-28 v3

Abstract

For Majorana neutrino masses the lowest dimensional operator possible is the Weinberg operator at d=5d=5. Here we discuss the possibility that neutrino masses originate from higher dimensional operators. Specifically, we consider all tree-level decompositions of the d=9d=9, d=11d=11 and d=13d=13 neutrino mass operators. With renormalizable interactions only, we find 18 topologies and 66 diagrams for d=9d=9, and 92 topologies plus 504 diagrams at the d=11d=11 level. At d=13d=13 there are already 576 topologies and 4199 diagrams. However, among all these there are only very few genuine neutrino mass models: At d=(9,11,13)d=(9,11,13) we find only (2,2,2) genuine diagrams and a total of (2,2,6) models. Here, a model is considered genuine at level dd if it automatically forbids lower order neutrino masses {\em without} the use of additional symmetries. We also briefly discuss how neutrino masses and angles can be easily fitted in these high-dimensional models.

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@article{arxiv.1806.07264,
  title  = {High-dimensional neutrino masses},
  author = {G. Anamiati and Oscar Castillo-Felisola and Renato M. Fonseca and J. C. Helo and M. Hirsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07264},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Coincides with published version in JHEP

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