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`Natural Masslessness Conservation' for neutrinos in two Higgs-doublet models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

We present a model which supplements the Standard Electroweak Model with three right-handed neutrinos and one extra scalar doublet which does not develop a vacuum expectation value. With the aid of a discrete symmetry the neutrinos are kept strictly massless. This model has several interesting features. It has unsuppressed lepton flavour violating processes, in particular μeγ\mu \rightarrow e \gamma, hinting at the possibility that these may soon be within experimental reach. The ZZ and WW interactions become non-diagonal at one loop level. In particular, a non-trivial leptonic mixing matrix is seen to arise from the clash between the charged gauge boson and the charged scalar interactions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9404246,
  title  = {`Natural Masslessness Conservation' for neutrinos in two Higgs-doublet models},
  author = {A. Barroso and Joao P. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9404246},
  year   = {2011}
}

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(Latex file, 12 pages. Two figures available upon request). CMU-preprint