Tev Neutrino Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Abstract
I argue that TeV neutrino physics might become an exciting frontier of particle physics in the era of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The origin of non-zero but tiny masses of three known neutrinos is probably related to the existence of some heavy degrees of freedom, such as heavy Majorana neutrinos or heavy Higgs bosons, via a TeV-scale seesaw mechanism. I take a few examples to illustrate how to get a balance between theoretical naturalness and experimental testability of TeV seesaws. Besides possible collider signatures at the LHC, new and non-unitary CP-violating effects are also expected to show up in neutrino oscillations for type-I, type-(I+II) and type-III seesaws at the TeV scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.0209,
title = {Tev Neutrino Physics at the Large Hadron Collider},
author = {Zhi-zhong Xing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0209},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures. Invited talk given at the International Conference on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Field Theory: 75 Years since Solvay, 27--29 November 2008, Singapore