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The Minimal Seesaw Model at the TeV Scale

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-05-12 v1

Abstract

We point out that the minimal seesaw model can provide a natural framework to accommodate tiny neutrino masses, while its experimental testability and notable predictiveness are still maintained. This possibility is based on the observation that two heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos in the minimal seesaw model may naturally emerge as a pseudo-Dirac fermion. In a specific scenario, we show that the tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing can be produced, and only the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy is allowed. The low-energy phenomena, including non-unitarity effects in neutrino oscillations, neutrinoless double-beta decays and rare lepton-flavor-violating decays of charged leptons l_alpha to l_beta + gamma, have been explored. The collider signatures of the heavy singlet neutrino are also briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0912.2661,
  title  = {The Minimal Seesaw Model at the TeV Scale},
  author = {He Zhang and Shun Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.2661},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures

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