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Neutrino - Modulino Mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

We suggest the existence of a light singlet fermion, SS, which interacts with observable matter only via a Planck mass suppressed interaction: m3/2/MP\sim m_{3/2}/M_P, where m3/2m_{3/2} is the supergravity gravitino mass. If the mass of the singlet equals m3/22/MP\sim m_{3/2}^2/M_P, then νeS\nu_e \to S resonance conversion solves the solar neutrino problem or leads to observable effects. The νS\nu S-mixing changes supernova neutrino fluxes and has an impact on the primordial nucleosynthesis. The singlet SS can originate as the supersymmetric partner of the moduli fields in supergravity or low energy effective theory steaming from superstrings. The νS\nu S-mixing may be accompanied by observable R-parity breaking effects.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703465,
  title  = {Neutrino - Modulino Mixing},
  author = {Karim Benakli and Alexei Yu. Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703465},
  year   = {2009}
}

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