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Neutrino Masses and Mixing in Supersymmetric Models without $R$ Parity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We study neutrino masses and mixing in Supersymmetric Models without RR parity and with generic soft Supersymmetry breaking terms. Neutrinos acquire mass from various sources: tree level neutrino--neutralino mixing, loop effects and non--renormalizable operators. Abelian horizontal symmetries (invoked to explain the smallness and hierarchy in quark parameters) replace RR parity in suppressing neutrino masses. We find lower bounds on the mixing angles: sinθij\gsimm(i)/m(j)\sin\theta_{ij} \gsim m(\ell_i^-)/m(\ell_j^-) (i<ji<j) and unusual order of magnitude predictions for neutrino mass ratios: m(νe)/m(νμ)sin2θ12m(\nu_e)/m(\nu_\mu)\sim\sin^2\theta_{12}; m(νi)/m(ντ)107sin2θi3m(\nu_i)/m(\nu_\tau)\sim 10^{-7} \sin^2\theta_{i3} (i=1,2i=1,2). Bounds from laboratory experiments exclude mντ\gsim3 MeVm_{\nu_\tau} \gsim 3\ MeV and the cosmological constraint that excludes mντ\gsim100 eVm_{\nu_\tau} \gsim 100\ eV is not evaded. Neither the solar nor the atmospheric neutrino problems are likely to be solved by νμνe\nu_\mu-\nu_e oscillations. These conclusions can be evaded if holomorphy plays an important role in the lepton Yukawa couplings.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9606251,
  title  = {Neutrino Masses and Mixing in Supersymmetric Models without $R$ Parity},
  author = {Francesca M. Borzumati and Yuval Grossman and Enrico Nardi and Yosef Nir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9606251},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, harvmac, no figures; Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B