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Non-Minimal Approximation for the Type-I Seesaw Mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-03-14 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

A non-minimal approximation for effective masses of light and heavy neutrinos in the framework of a type-I seesaw mechanism with three generations of sterile Majorana neutrinos which recover the symmetry between quarks and leptons is considered. The main results are: (a) the next-order corrections to the effective mass matrix of heavy neutrinos due to terms O({\theta}MD) are obtained, which modify the commonly used representation for the effective mass (MD is a Dirac neutrino mass when the electroweak symmetry is spontaneously broken); and (b) the general form of the mixing matrix is found in non-minimal approximation parametrized by a complex 3x3 matrix satisfying a nontrivial constraint. Numerical analysis within the {\nu}MSM framework demonstrates the very small effect of new contributions of direct collider observables as opposed to their possible significance for cosmological models.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06680,
  title  = {Non-Minimal Approximation for the Type-I Seesaw Mechanism},
  author = {Mikhail Dubinin and Elena Fedotova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06680},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables

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