TeV-scale Seesaw with Quintuplet Fermions
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.
Cite
@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