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Testing Radiative Neutrino Mass Models at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v3

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider provides us new opportunities to search for the origin of neutrino mass. Beyond the minimal see-saw models a plethora of models exist which realise neutrino mass at tree- or loop-level, and it is important to be sure that these possibilities are satisfactorily covered by searches. The purpose of this paper is to advance a systematic approach to this problem. Majorana neutrino mass models can be organised by SM-gauge-invariant operators which violate lepton number by two units. In this paper we write down the minimal ultraviolet completions for all of the mass-dimension 7 operators. We predict vector-like quarks, vector-like leptons, scalar leptoquarks, a charged scalar, and a scalar doublet, whose properties are constrained by neutrino oscillation data. A detailed collider study is presented for O3=LLQdˉHO_3=LLQ\bar dH and O8=LdˉeˉuˉHO_8 = L\bar d\bar e^\dagger \bar u^\dagger H completions with a vector-like quark χ(3,2,56)\chi\sim(3, 2, -\frac{5}{6}) and a leptoquark ϕ(3ˉ,1,13)\phi\sim(\bar 3,1,\frac{1}{3}). The existing LHC limits extracted from searches for vector-like fermions and sbottoms/stops are mχ620m_\chi \gtrsim 620 GeV and mϕ600m_\phi\gtrsim 600 GeV.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.0689,
  title  = {Testing Radiative Neutrino Mass Models at the LHC},
  author = {Yi Cai and Jackson D. Clarke and Michael A. Schmidt and Raymond R. Volkas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0689},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

40 pages, 13 figures; references added, minor changes, matches JHEP version

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