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Natural TeV-Scale Left-Right Seesaw for Neutrinos and Experimental Tests

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-12-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a TeV-scale left-right ultraviolet completion of type-I seesaw for neutrino masses based on the SU(2)L×SU(2)R×U(1)BLSU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L} gauge group without parity, which leads to "large" light-heavy neutrino mixing while keeping the neutrino masses small in a natural manner guaranteed by discrete symmetries. We point out specific observable implications of this class of models if the SU(2)RSU(2)_R-breaking scale is of order 5 TeV, in searches for lepton flavor violating processes such as μeγ\mu\to e\gamma, μ3e\mu\to 3 e and μe\mu-e conversion in nuclei, and lepton number violating processes such as neutrinoless double beta decay as well as at the LHC. In particular, if the upper limit on BR(μeγ)(\mu\to e\gamma) improves by one order of magnitude, a large range of the parameters of the model would be ruled out.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0774,
  title  = {Natural TeV-Scale Left-Right Seesaw for Neutrinos and Experimental Tests},
  author = {P. S. Bhupal Dev and Chang-Hun Lee and R. N. Mohapatra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0774},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

34 pages, 8 figures, 10 tables; some comments and references added; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D