Neutrino mass models
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2026-04-20 v1
Abstract
Neutrino masses provide one of the clearest indications of physics beyond the Standard Model. In this brief review, I discuss the main theoretical frameworks developed to account for them, with particular emphasis on scenarios in which neutrinos are Majorana particles. After a short overview of the current landscape of neutrino mass models, I focus on constructions featuring the spontaneous breaking of global lepton number and examine the phenomenological implications of a massless Goldstone boson, the majoron.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.15995,
title = {Neutrino mass models},
author = {Avelino Vicente},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15995},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages; presented as a talk at NuPhys2026, Prospects in Neutrino Physics