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Probing New Physics Signals with Symmetry-Restored Yukawa Textures

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We implement a symmetry violation guideline into a two-Higgs-doublet model embedded with three right-handed neutrinos, and exploit the generic Yukawa structures of the model via a hypothetical symmetry restoration of a global UQ(1)3×UL(1)3U_Q(1)^3\times U_L(1)^3 symmetry. We then apply a mass-powered parametrization to construct the phenomenologically motivated Yukawa interactions, which enables us to incorporate correlatively the neutrino mass, dark matter, as well as the lepton-flavor universality violations in RK()R_{K^{(*)}} and RD()R_{D^{(*)}}. Specifically, two atmospheric-scale neutrino masses are generated by a low-scale seesaw mechanism, while the much lighter one, being of O(106) eV\mathcal{O}(10^{-6})~{\rm eV}, is fixed by a 7.1 keV7.1~{\rm keV} sterile neutrino dark matter produced primordially by the freeze-in mechanism. On the other hand, the neutrino and the charged-lepton mass hierarchies encoded in the mass-powered textures can naturally account for the RK()R_{K^{(*)}} and the RD()R_{D^{(*)}} anomalies, respectively. As a further application, a milder discrepancy of the muon g2g-2 is observed, which has also been implied by the recently refined lattice results.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.13555,
  title  = {Probing New Physics Signals with Symmetry-Restored Yukawa Textures},
  author = {Shao-Ping Li and Xin-Qiang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.13555},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures; formulation of the model refined, and several references added, final version published in the journal