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Radiative Majorana Neutrino Masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We present new radiative mechanisms for generating Majorana neutrino masses, within an extension of the standard model that successfully generates radiative charged lepton masses, order by order, from heavy sequential leptons. Only the new sequential neutral lepton has a right-handed partner, and its Majorana mass provides the seed for Majorana neutrino mass generation. Saturating the cosmological bound of 5050 eV with mντm_{\nu_\tau}, we find that mνμm_{\nu_\mu} and mνem_{\nu_e} could be at most 10210^{-2}, and 10310^{-3} eV, respectively. The electron neutrino mass may vanish in the limit of degenerate charged Higgs bosons. Unfortunately, νeντ\nu_e - \nu_\tau mixing is also radiatively induced, and is too small for sake of solving the solar neutrino problem via the Mikheyev--Smirnov--Wolfenstein effect.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9405395,
  title  = {Radiative Majorana Neutrino Masses},
  author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Gwo-Guang Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9405395},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures (not included), REVTeX, NTUTH--94--04