On symmetry-extended standard model and neutrino masses

Angular distributions of electrons intersecting 40- and 120-μm aluminum foils and a 60-μm copper foil have been measured. Electrons have been injected from a microtron with a particle energy of 7.4 MeV. The effect of the material and thickness of a foil, as well as of the direction of injection, on the spatial distribution of passed particles has been analyzed. The measurements have shown that the intersection of the foil at small angles to its surface not only increases the transverse dimensions of the beam but also changes the direction of its motion.     

Probing a supersymmetric model for neutrino masses at ultrahigh energy neutrino telescopes

A bilinear R-parity breaking SUSY model for neutrino mass and mixing predicts the lightest superparticle to decay mainly into a pair of tau leptons or b quarks along with a neutrino for relatively light SUSY spectra. This leads to a distinctive triple bang signature of SUSY events at ultrahigh energy neutrino telescopes like IceCube or Antares. While the expected signal size is only marginal at IceCube, it will be promising for a future multi-km³ size neutrino telescope.     

Majorana neutrino masses in the three-flavor Pauli model

A special Majorana model for three neutrino flavors is developed on the basis of the Pauli transformation group. In this model, the neutrinos possess a partially conserved generalized lepton (Pauli) charge that makes it possible to discriminate between neutrinos of different type. It is shown that, within the model in question, a transition from the basic “mass” representation, where the average value of this charge is zero, to the representation associated with physical neutrinos characterized by specific Pauli “flavor” charges establishes a relation between the neutrino mixing angles θ _{mix, 12}, θ _{mix, 23}, and θ _{mix, 13} and an additional relation between the Majorana neutrino masses. The Lagrangian mass part, which includes a term invariant under Pauli transformations and a representation-dependent term, concurrently assumes a “quasi-Dirac” form. With allowance for these relations, the existing set of experimental data on the features of neutrino oscillations makes it possible to obtain quantitative estimates for the absolute values of the neutrino masses and the 2β-decay mass parameter m _ββ and a number of additional constraints on the neutrino mixing angles.     

Verifiable model of neutrino masses from large extra dimensions

We propose a new scenario of neutrino masses with a Higgs triplet (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 xi to the standard Higgs doublet in our brane. Small realistic Majorana neutrino masses are naturally obtained with the fundamental scale M(*) approximately O(1) TeV, foretelling the possible discovery of xi (m(xi) less, similarM(*)) at future colliders. Decays of xi(++) into same-sign dileptons are fixed by the neutrino mass matrix. Observation of &mgr;-e conversion in nuclei is predicted.     

Understanding neutrino masses and mixings

We discuss ways to understand large neutrino mixings using new symmetries of quarks and leptons beyond the standard model for the three allowed patterns of neutrino masses: normal, inverted hierarchy and degenerate masses.     

Upper bounds on neutrino masses

Using a recent experimental bound on τ decay into three charged leptons and a weak assumption concerning a general “see-saw” mechanism for neutrino masses, we show that both v_μ and v_τ must be lighter than 65 eV. If the “see-saw” is driven by a right-handed W boson or by a “horizontal” gauge boson, they must be heavier than 50 PeV.     

A test for neutrino masses

If any neutrinos have mass the reaction $\text{π}{}^0\text{→ν}\text{ν}$ is allowed. With the forthcoming generation of machines this could provide a practical means for finding limits on neutrino masses.     

Models of neutrino masses and mixings

I discuss models of neutrino masses that could lead to a large mixing angle for the atmospheric neutrino oscillations.     

Theory of neutrino masses and mixing

We motivate the usage of finite groups as symmetries of the Lagrangian. After a presentation of basic group-theoretical concepts, we introduce the notion of characters and character tables in the context of irreducible representations and discuss their applications. We exemplify these theoretical concepts with the groups S ₄ and A ₄. Finally, we discuss the relation between tensor products of irreducible representations and Yukawa couplings and describe a model for tri-bimaximal lepton mixing based on A ₄.     

Models of neutrino masses and baryogenesis

Majorana masses of the neutrino implies lepton number violation and is intimately related to the lepton asymmetry of the universe, which gets related to the baryon asymmetry of the universe in the presence of the sphalerons during the electroweak phase transition. Assuming that the baryon asymmetry of the universe is generated before the electroweak phase transition, it is possible to discriminate different classes of models of neutrino masses. While see-saw mechanism and the triplet Higgs mechanism are preferred, the Zee-type radiative models and the R-parity breaking models requires additional inputs to generate baryon asymmetry of the universe during the electroweak phase transition.     

Renormalization of seesaw neutrino masses in the standard model with two-Higgs doublets

Using the theoretical ambiguities inherent in the seesaw mechanism, we derive the new analytic expressions for both quadratic and linear seesaw formulae for neutrino masses at low energies, with either up-type quark masses or charged lepton masses. This is possible through full radiative corrections arising out of the renormalizations of the Yukawa couplings, the coefficients of the neutrino-mass-operator in the standard model with two-Higgs doublets, and also the QCD-QED rescaling factors below the top-quark mass scale, at one-loop level. We also investigate numerically the unification of top-b-τ Yukawa couplings at the scale M ₁=0.59×10⁸ GeV for a fixed value of tan β=58.77, and then evaluate the seesaw neutrino masses which are too large in magnitude to be compatible with the presently available solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillation data. However, if we consider a higher but arbitrary value of M ₁=0.59×10¹¹ GeV, the predictions from linear seesaw formulae with charged lepton masses, can accommodate simultaneousely both solar atmospheric neutrino oscillation data.     

The superlight axion and neutrino masses

Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields - It is argued that the Peccei—QuinnU(1) PQ symmetry, needed to solve the strong CP-problem, and the localB−L symmetry of weak...     

Electroweak baryogenesis from late neutrino masses

Electroweak baryogenesis, given a first-order phase transition, does not work in the standard model because the quark Yukawa matrices are too hierarchical. On the other hand, the neutrino mass matrix is apparently not hierarchical. In models with neutrino mass generation at low scales, the neutrino Yukawa couplings lead to large CP violation in the reflection probability of heavy leptons by the expanding Higgs bubble wall, and can generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. The mechanism predicts new vectorlike leptons below the TeV scale and sizable mu --> e processes.