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Neutrino-axion-dilaton interconnection

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-01-20 v3

Abstract

We show that a recently proposed framework that provides a simple connection between Majorana neutrinos and an invisible axion in minimal scalar extensions of the standard electroweak model can be naturally embedded in a classically scale-invariant setup. The explicit breaking of the scale invariance \`a la Coleman-Weinberg generates the Peccei-Quinn and electroweak scales. The spontaneous breaking of the chiral U(1)PQU(1)_{PQ} triggers the generation of neutrino masses via Type-II seesaw and, at the same time, provides a dynamical solution to the strong CP problem as well as the axion as a dark matter candidate. The electroweak and neutrino mass scales are obtained via a technically natural ultraweak limit of the singlet scalar interactions. Accordingly, a realistic and perturbatively stable scalar spectrum, possibly in the reach of the LHC, is naturally obtained. A very light pseudodilaton characterizes such a setting. The vacuum stability of the extended setup is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1510.03668,
  title  = {Neutrino-axion-dilaton interconnection},
  author = {Stefano Bertolini and Luca Di Luzio and Helena Kolešová and Michal Malinský and Juan Carlos Vasquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03668},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

20 pages, 8 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D

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