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TeV-scale Seesaw with Quintuplet Fermions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-07-26 v2

Abstract

We propose a new seesaw model based on fermionic hypercharge zero weak quintuplet in conjunction with additional scalar quadruplet which attains an induced vev. The model provides both tree-level seesaw ~ v^6/M^5 and a loop-suppressed radiative ~ (1 / 16 \pi^2) v^2/M contributions to active neutrino masses. The empirical masses m_\nu ~ 10^{-1} eV can be achieved with M ~ TeV new states, accessible at the LHC. For 5 fb^{-1} of accumulated integrated luminosity at the LHC, there could be ~ 500 doubly-charged \Sigma^{++} or \bar{\Sigma^{++}} fermions with mass M_\Sigma = 400 GeV, leading to interesting multi-lepton signatures. The neutral component of the fermion quintuplet, previously identified as minimal dark matter candidate, becomes unstable in the proposed seesaw setup. The stability can be restored by introducing a Z_2 symmetry, in which case neutrinos get mass only from radiative contributions.

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@article{arxiv.1204.6599,
  title  = {TeV-scale Seesaw with Quintuplet Fermions},
  author = {Kresimir Kumericki and Ivica Picek and Branimir Radovcic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6599},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

19 pages, 9 figures, corresponds to published version

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