Left-Right Symmetric Theory with Light Sterile Neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-10-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
A simple theoretical framework for the spontaneous breaking of parity, baryon and lepton numbers is proposed. In this context, the baryon and lepton numbers are independent local gauge symmetries, while parity is defined making use of the left-right symmetry. We show that in the minimal model the new leptoquark fields needed to define an anomaly-free theory also generate neutrino masses through the type III seesaw mechanism. The spectrum of neutrinos and some phenomenological aspects are discussed. This theory predicts the possible existence of two light sterile neutrinos.
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@article{arxiv.1306.0568,
title = {Left-Right Symmetric Theory with Light Sterile Neutrinos},
author = {Michael Duerr and Pavel Fileviez Perez and Manfred Lindner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0568},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
minor corrections, published in Physical Review D as a Rapid Communication