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Verifiable Model of Neutrino Masses from Large Extra Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We propose a new scenario of neutrino masses with a Higgs triplet (ξ++,ξ+,ξ0)(\xi^{++},\xi^+,\xi^0) in a theory of large extra dimensions. Lepton number violation in a distant brane acts as the source of a very small trilinear coupling of ξ\xi to the standard Higgs doublet in our brane. Small realistic Majorana neutrino masses are \underline{naturally} obtained with the fundamental scale MO(1)M_* \sim {\cal O}(1) TeV, foretelling the possible discovery of ξ\xi (mξ\lsimM)(m_\xi\lsim M_*) at future colliders. Decays of ξ++\xi^{++} into same-sign dileptons are fixed by the neutrino mass matrix. Observation of μe\mu-e conversion in nuclei is predicted.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006046,
  title  = {Verifiable Model of Neutrino Masses from Large Extra Dimensions},
  author = {Ernest Ma and Martti Raidal and Utpal Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006046},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

A comment on Tevatron reach and two references added. Discussion and conclusions unchanged