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Lepton number violation and neutrino masses in 3-3-1 models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-06 v1

Abstract

Lepton number violation and its relation to neutrino masses is investigated in several versions of the SU(3)cSU(3)LU(1)xSU(3)_c\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_x model. Spontaneous and explicit violation and conservation of the lepton number are considered. In one of the models (the so-called economical one), the lepton number is spontaneously violated and it is found that the would be Majoron is not present because it is gauged away, poviding in this way the longitudinal polarization component to a now massive gauge field.

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@article{arxiv.1503.01686,
  title  = {Lepton number violation and neutrino masses in 3-3-1 models},
  author = {Richard H. Benavides and Luis N. Epele and Huner Fanchiotti and Carlos García Canal and William A. Ponce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01686},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for publication as review article in: Advances in High Energy Physics