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Probing Dynamical Inverse Seesaw with Low-frequency Gravitational Waves

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-28 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the possibility of probing the dynamical inverse seesaw mechanism for the origin of light neutrino masses via the detection of stochastic gravitational waves (GW) in the low-frequency regime currently being probed by pulsar timing arrays. As the lepton number-violating term in inverse seesaw typically remains in the sub-MeV ballpark, its dynamical origin naturally brings the possibility of a low-scale first-order phase transition, which can be probed at low-frequency GW experiments. We also find interesting complementarity with heavy neutral lepton searches, as GW experiments remain sensitive to parameter space with small active-sterile mixing, which is out of reach for most particle physics experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27519,
  title  = {Probing Dynamical Inverse Seesaw with Low-frequency Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Debasish Borah and Sounak Dutta and Partha Kumar Paul and Indrajit Saha and Narendra Sahu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27519},
  year   = {2026}
}

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4+6 pages, 3 captioned figures, 2 tables

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