Radiative Majorana Neutrino Masses
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 eV with , we find that and could be at most , and eV, respectively. The electron neutrino mass may vanish in the limit of degenerate charged Higgs bosons. Unfortunately, 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