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Dirac neutrinos from a second Higgs doublet

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-10 v2

Abstract

We propose a minimal extension of the Standard Model in which neutrinos are Dirac particles and their tiny masses are explained without requiring tiny Yukawa couplings. A second Higgs doublet with a tiny vacuum expectation value provides neutrino masses while simultaneously improving the naturalness of the model by allowing a heavier Standard Model-like Higgs boson consistent with electroweak precision data. The model predicts a mu to e gamma rate potentially detectable in the current round of experiments, as well as distinctive signatures in the production and decay of the charged Higgs H+ of the second doublet which can be tested at future colliders. Neutrinoless double beta decay is absent.

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@article{arxiv.0906.3335,
  title  = {Dirac neutrinos from a second Higgs doublet},
  author = {Shainen M. Davidson and Heather E. Logan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3335},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures; v2: intro expanded, refs added, submitted to PRD

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