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Pathways to Naturally Small Neutrino Masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v4

Abstract

In the minimal standard electroweak gauge model, there is an effective dimension-five operator which generates neutrino masses, and it has only three tree-level realizations. One is the canonical seesaw mechanism with a right-handed neutrino. Another is having a heavy Higgs triplet as recently proposed. The third is to have a heavy Majorana fermion triplet, an example of which is presented here in the context of supersymmetric SU(5) grand unification. The three generic one-loop realizations of this operator are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805219,
  title  = {Pathways to Naturally Small Neutrino Masses},
  author = {Ernest Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805219},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages including 5 figures; corrected minus signs in Eqs.(5)-(6), no result is affected