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First-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs), offering a unique probe of high-scale particle physics. The Left-Right Symmetric Model (LRSM), which restores parity symmetry at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 William Searle , Csaba Balázs , Yang Xiao , Yang Zhang

We explore a mechanism of radiative B-L symmetry breaking in analogous to the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking. The breaking scale of B-L symmetry is related to the neutrino masses through the see-saw mechanism. Once we incorporate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatsuru Kikuchi , Takayuki Kubo

The three electroweak doublet neutrinos $\nu_{e,\mu,\tau}$ of the Standard Model may acquire small seesaw masses, using either three Majorana fermion singlets $N$ or three Majorana fermion triplets $(\Sigma^+,\Sigma^0,\Sigma^-)$. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 Rathin Adhikari , Jens Erler , Ernest Ma

We study the electroweak symmetry breaking in the framework of a classically conformal $U(1)_{B-L}$ theory, where three right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) and a hidden scalar are introduced, with the latter playing the role of dark matter (DM).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Ligong Bian , Wei Cheng , Huai-Ke Guo , Yongchao Zhang

The left-right symmetric model (LRSM) is a well-motivated framework to restore parity and implement seesaw mechanisms for the tiny neutrino masses at or above the TeV-scale, and has a very rich phenomenology at both the high-energy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 Mingqiu Li , Qi-Shu Yan , Yongchao Zhang , Zhijie Zhao

In this work, we propose a novel realization of $\textit{type-I}$ cosmic strings arising from the spontaneous breaking of an extended gauge symmetry $SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L}$ in the context of a low-scale split seesaw mechanism for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 Adeela Afzal

The spontaneous breaking of U(1)_B-L around the scale of grand unification can simultaneously account for hybrid inflation, leptogenesis, and neutralino dark matter, thus resolving three major puzzles of particle physics and cosmology in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Wilfried Buchmuller , Valerie Domcke , Hitoshi Murayama , Kai Schmitz

The Standard Model (SM) with one right-handed neutrino per generation is revisited with presymmetry being the global $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry of an electroweak theory of leptons and quarks with initially postulated symmetric fractional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-26 Ernesto A. Matute

Taking the 3-3-1 models (with $SU(3)_c \otimes SU(3)_L \otimes U(1)_Y$ gauge group) as examples, we study that a class of new physics models with extended gauge group could undergo one or several first-order phase transitions associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-03 Fa Peng Huang , Xinmin Zhang

Based on the gauge symmetry group $SU(3)_C\otimes{SU(2)_L}\otimes{U(1)_Y}\otimes{U(1)_{B-L}}$, the minimal supersymmetric extension of the SM with local B-L gauge symmetry(B-LSSM) has been introduced. In this model, we study the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Xing-Xing Dong , Tai-Fu Feng , Hai-Bin Zhang , Shu-Min Zhao , Jin-Lei Yang

Flavourful extensions of the Standard Model aimed at explaining its fermionic mass structure typically rely on symmetries, broken at high-energy scales far beyond the reach of foreseeable direct collider searches. We illustrate, using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Anna Chrysostomou , Alan S. Cornell , Luc Darmé , Aldo Deandrea , Thibault Demartini

We study supercooled first-order phase transitions above the QCD scale in a wide class of conformal Majoron-like U(1)' models that explain the totality of active neutrino oscillation data and produce a detectable stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 João Gonçalves , Danny Marfatia , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik

Instead of anchoring the seesaw mechanism with the conventional heavy right-handed neutrino singlet, a small Majorana neutrino mass may be obtained just as well with the addition of a heavy triplet of leptons per family to the minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ernest Ma

We perform a three dimensional lattice simulation of the electroweak symmetry breaking process through a two-step phase transition, where one of the two steps is a first order phase transition. Our results show that: 1) when the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 Zizhuo Zhao , Yuefeng Di , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai

We suggest the so-called bosonic seesaw mechanism in the context of a classically conformal $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model with two Higgs doublet fields. The $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry is radiatively broken via the Coleman-Weinberg…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-08 Naoyuki Haba , Hiroyuki Ishida , Nobuchika Okada , Yuya Yamaguchi

The future space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors would provide a promising probe for the new physics beyond the standard model that admits the first-order phase transitions. The predictions for the GW background vary sensitively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Katsuya Hashino , Shao-Jiang Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

We present a comprehensive analysis of a supersymmetric $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theory, which is broken to the Standard Model via the breaking of two intermediate symmetries. The spontaneous breaking of the first intermediate symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Bowen Fu , Stephen F. King , Luca Marsili , Silvia Pascoli , Jessica Turner , Ye-Ling Zhou

We propose a gauged $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the standard model (SM) to explain simultaneously the light neutrino masses and dark matter (DM). The generation of neutrino masses occurs through a variant of type-II seesaw mechanism in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Satyabrata Mahapatra , Nimmala Narendra , Narendra Sahu

Traditional seesaw mechanisms provide an elegant theoretical framework for explaining the small yet non-zero masses of neutrinos. Nevertheless, they face significant experimental challenges, primarily because the energy scale associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Yonghua Wang , Wei Chao

We extend the Type I seesaw and suggest a $new$ seesaw mechanism to generate neutrino masses within the left-right symmetric theories where parity is spontaneously broken. We construct a next to minimal left-right symmetric model where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Joydeep Chakrabortty