Neutrino masses in the Standard Model effective field theory
Abstract
We compute the leading-logarithmic correction to the neutrino mass matrix in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) to dimension seven. In the limit of negligible lepton and down-type quark Yukawa couplings, it receives contributions from the Weinberg dimension-five operator as well as from 11 dimension-six and five dimension-seven independent interactions. Two of the main implications we derive from this result are the following. First, we find dimension-seven operators which, despite violating lepton number, do not renormalise neutrino masses at one loop. And second, we demonstrate that the presence of dimension-six operators around the TeV scale can modify the Standard Model prediction by up to . Our result comprises also one step forward towards the renormalisation of the SMEFT to order .
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@article{arxiv.2104.08248,
title = {Neutrino masses in the Standard Model effective field theory},
author = {Mikael Chala and Arsenii Titov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08248},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables; several comments and references added; typos corrected; matches version published in PRD